blackfly, buffalo gnat (any insect of the family Simuliidae)
çekim: çoğul mäkärät · tamlayan mäkärän
köken: From Proto-Finnic *mäkärä (probably from earlier *makara), probably borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (whence Lithuanian makatas (“gnat”)). Cognate with dialectal Estonian mägar, Karelian mäkärä, Ludian mägär and Proto-Samic *muokēr.
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.
blackfly (small insects of the order Diptera (family: Simuliidae) that suck blood and resemble flies)
çekim: çoğul knišļi · tamlayan knišļa
köken: Derived from the verb knist (“to itch”) (q.v.). Some dialectal variants (knausis, knauslis, knusis) have the same basic root (Proto-Indo-European *ken-, *kn-), but with a different suffix and/or ablaut form.
knislis sīc
jaukā laikā odi un knišļi cēlās augstu gaisā
pie assinssūcējiem divspārņiem pieder odi, knišļi, miģeles, mušas un dunduri