mosquitoes (collective noun for small flying insects of the family Culicidae, known for biting and sucking blood; an individual mosquito is called a mygga)
a Finnish surname · A nickname of Nordforsin punaviini (“Nordfors's Red Wine”), a former cheap brand of red wine. · A nickname of Folland Gnat fighter plane.
köken: Possibly a -kka diminutive of Nuutti. The wine sense is based on the Swedish pronunciation of Nordfors (sounding something like Nuu(r)dfors if respelled in Finnish), while the plane sense is based on phonetic similarity with the English word gnat as well as itikka (“gnat”).
member of the suborder Nematocera (which includes mosquitos, midges, gnats and others)
çekim: çoğul myggene · tamlayan mygs
köken: From Old Danish and Old Norse myg, either borrowed from Middle Low German mügge, from Old Saxon mugga, from Proto-West Germanic *muggjā, from Proto-Germanic *mugjǭ (“midge, small fly”); or, from Proto-Germanic *mują (“small fly”). See also with Norwegian, Swedish mygg, English midge, German Mücke. The West Nordic word, Old Norse mý, probably goes back to a different stem, *mują.