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See also: Gnat and gnát

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English gnat, from Old English gnætt (“gnat; midge; mosquito”), from Proto-West Germanic *gnatt, *gnattu, from Proto-Germanic *gnattaz, *gnattuz (“gnat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰneHdʰn-, *gʰneHd- (“to gnaw; scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰen- (“to gnaw; bite; scratch; grind”). Cognate with Low German Gnatte (“gnat”), dialectal Swedish gnatt (“mosquito”), German Gnatz (“scabs; rash; scabies; stinginess”). Related also gnit and gnaw.

English Wikipedia has an article on:gnatWikipedia

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /næt/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -æt

Noun

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gnat (plural gnats)

  1. Any small insect of the order Diptera, specifically within the suborder Nematocera.
  2. (informal) An annoying person.
    • 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 115:"Away thou whining gnat, and trouble me not!"

Derived terms

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  • box the gnat
  • Clear Lake gnat
  • fungus gnat
  • gall gnat
  • gnat bug
  • gnatcatcher
  • gnateater
  • gnatlike
  • gnatling
  • gnatproof
  • gnat's
  • gnat's arse, gnat's ass
  • gnat's chuff
  • gnat's prick
  • gnat-strain
  • gnat-strainer
  • gnat-straining
  • gnat's whisker
  • gnatty
  • gnatworm
  • gnatwren
  • strain at a gnat
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  • gnit

Translations

[edit] any small insect of the order Diptera
  • Afrikaans: mug
  • Arabic: Egyptian Arabic: برغش m (barḡaš)
  • Armenian: մոծակ (hy) (mocak)
  • Bashkir: серәкәй (serəkəy)
  • Bengali: ডাঁশ (bn) (ḍãś)
  • Bikol Central: nuknok (bcl)
  • Bulgarian: комар (bg) m (komar)
  • Catalan: mosquit (ca) m
  • Chinese: Mandarin: 蚋 (zh) (ruì), (mosquito) 蚊 (zh) (wén)
  • Danish: myg (da) c, stikmyg c
  • Dupaningan Agta: rahik
  • Dutch: mug (nl) f, knut (nl)
  • Erzya: марав (marav)
  • Esperanto: kulo (eo)
  • Estonian: sääsk (et)
  • Faroese: mýggjabiti m
  • Finnish: sääski (fi)
  • French: moucheron (fr) m
  • German: Stechmücke (de) f, (colloquial, regional) Schnake (de) f
  • Greek: Ancient Greek: κώνωψ m (kṓnōps)
  • Greenlandic: ippernaq
  • Gujarati: મચ્છર m (macchar)
  • Hungarian: szúnyog (hu)
  • Irish: corrmhíol m
  • Italian: moscerino (it)
  • Japanese: 蚋 (ja) (ぶよ, buyo), ブヨ (buyo)
  • Kapampangan: absang
  • Korean: 모기 (ko) (mogi)
  • Latin: culex m, (rare) alucita f
  • Latvian: ods (lv) m
  • Lithuanian: mašalas m
  • Macedonian: мушичка f (mušička), комарец m (komarec)
  • Malagasy: aloiloy (mg)
  • Malayalam: നുളമ്പ് (ml) (nuḷampŭ)
  • Manx: meeyl f, quill f
  • Middle English: gnat
  • Norman: bibet m
  • Northern Thai: ᩁᩥ᩠᩶ᨶ (hín)
  • Norwegian: Bokmål: knott m Nynorsk: knott m
  • Old English: gnætt m
  • Paraguayan Guarani: (please verify) ñati'û
  • Persian: پشه (fa) (paše)
  • Polish: komar (pl) m
  • Portuguese: mosquito (pt) m, mosquitinho m pl
  • Russian: мо́шка (ru) f (móška), (mosquito) кома́р (ru) m (komár)
  • Scottish Gaelic: meanbh-chuileag f
  • Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: мушица f, (mosquito) комарац f Roman: mušica (sh) f, (mosquito) komarac (sh) f
  • Sicilian: muschitta (scn) f, sampagghiuni m, siḍḍu m
  • Spanish: mosquito (es) m, jején (es) m, maje (es) m, mime (es) m
  • Swedish: stickmygga (sv) c
  • Tagalog: niknik
  • Thai: ริ้น (th) (hín)
  • Turkish: sivrisinek (tr)
  • Ukrainian: мошка f (moška), мушка f (muška), комар (uk) m (komar)
  • Vietnamese: ruồi nhuế
  • Volapük: (♂♀) muskitil, (♂) himuskitil, (♀) jimuskitil
  • Welsh: gwybedyn m
  • West Frisian: langskonk

See also

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  • midge

Anagrams

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  • Gant, T'ang, Tang, tang

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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  • gnatte, knat, knatte, gnet

Etymology

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From Old English gnætt, from Proto-Germanic *gnattaz.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡnat/, /ɡnɛt/

Noun

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gnat (plural gnattes)

  1. A gnat or similar insect.
  2. Something of little worth or importance.

Descendants

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  • English: gnat
  • Scots: gnat

References

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  • “gnat, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 October 2018.

Polish

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Alternative forms

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  • gnát (Eastern Kraków, Kielce, Biecz, Żywiec)

Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gnatъ.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡnat/
  • (Masovia):
    • (Far Masovian) IPA(key): [ˈɡnat]
  • (Lesser Poland):
    • (Goral):
      • (Żywiec) IPA(key): [ˈɡnat]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -at
  • Syllabification: gnat
  • Homophone: Gnat

Noun

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gnat m animal (diminutive gnacik)

  1. (colloquial) large bone
  2. (slang) gun
  3. (Far Masovian) animal bone Synonym: kość
    1. (Far Masovian) human bone Synonym: kość Gnaty me bolą. ― My bones hurt.

Declension

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singular plural
nominative gnat gnaty
genitive gnata gnatów
dative gnatowi gnatom
accusative gnata gnaty
instrumental gnatem gnatami
locative gnacie gnatach
vocative gnacie gnaty

Further reading

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  • gnat in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • gnat in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894), “gnat”, in “O języku ludowym w powiecie przasnyskim”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 108
  • Leon Rzeszowski (1891), “gnat”, in “Spis wyrazów ludowych z okolic Żywca”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 355

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