gnat

See also: Gnat

English

Etymology

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 (“mote; particle; atom”), German Gnatz (“scabs; rash; scabies; stinginess”). Related also gnit and gnaw.

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gnat

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /næt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -æt

Noun

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

• box the gnat
• Clear Lake gnat
• fungus gnat
• gall gnat
• gnat bug
• gnatcatcher
• gnateater
• gnat's
• gnat's arse, gnat's ass
• gnat's chuff
• gnat's prick
• gnat-strainer
• gnat's whisker
• strain at a gnat

 

Related terms

• gnit

Translations

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: please add this translation if you can Faroese: mýggjabiti m Finnish: sääski (fi) French: moucheron (fr) m German: Stechmücke (de) f, (colloquial, regional) Schnake (de) f Greek: Ancient: κώνωψ m (kṓnōps) Greenlandic: ippernaq Guaraní: ñati'û 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 Norman: bibet m Norwegian: knott m 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) mosquito (es) m Swedish: stickmygga (sv) c Tagalog: niknik 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

• midge

Anagrams

• Gant, T'ang, Tang, tang

Middle English

Alternative forms

• gnatte, knat, knatte, gnet

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡnat/, /ɡnɛt/

Noun

gnat (plural gnattes)

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

Descendants

• English: gnat
• Scots: gnat

References

• “gnat, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-17.

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gnatъ.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡnat/

• (Masovia):
  • (Far Masovian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡnat/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: gnat
• Homophone: Gnat

Noun

gnat m animal (diminutive gnacik)

1. (colloquial) large bone
2. (slang) gun
3. (Far Masovian) animal bone

   Synonym: kość

   1. (Far Masovian, less commonly) human bone

      Synonym: kość

      Gnaty me bolą. ― My bones hurt.

Declension

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

Declension of gnat

Further reading

• gnat in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• gnat in Polish dictionaries at PWN