muskiet

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mosquito (“gnat”) or Portuguese mosquito, diminutive of Spanish/Portuguese mosca (“fly”), from Latin musca (“fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *mūs- (“fly, stinging fly, gnat”). Cognate with West-Flemish meuzie (“mosquito”), Swedish dialectal mausa (“mosquito”), Lithuanian musė (“a fly”). See also midge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʏsˈkit/

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• Hyphenation: mus‧kiet
• Rhymes: -it

Noun

muskiet m (plural muskieten, diminutive muskietje n)

1. a tropical mosquito of the family Culicidae that feeds on blood
2. any blood-sucking species of mosquito of the family Culicidae

   Synonym: steekmug

Derived terms

• muskietennet
• muskietkolibrie
• persmuskiet

Descendants

• Afrikaans: muskiet
• Berbice Creole Dutch: maskiti
• Negerhollands: moeskit, moskite, muskit, moskit
• → Sranan Tongo: maskita
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: maskitá
  • → Caribbean Javanese: maskitah