Mücke

See also: Mucke

German

Etymology

From Old High German mucka (akin to Old Saxon muggia), from Proto-Germanic *mugjō, *muwō (“midge”), from Proto-Indo-European *mū- (“fly, midge”), *mu-, *mew-. Compare German Low German Mügg, Mügge, Dutch Low Saxon mugge, Dutch mug, English midge, Danish myg, Latin musca.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmʏkə/
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Rhymes: -ʏkə

Noun

Mücke f (genitive Mücke, plural Mücken, diminutive Mückchen n or Mücklein n)

(specific sense) mosquito
(broader sense, biology) insect of the order Nematocera, that is a mosquito, crane fly, gnat, or midge
(regional, Austria, parts of southern Germany) fly

Usage notes

A Mücke is most often understood to be a blood-sucking mosquito in northern and central Germany, though the broader sense of “Nematocera” is also found and is conventional in biological terminology. In Austrian standard German, and in southern German speech, the term may also include flies.

Declension

Declension of Mücke

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Mücke	die	Mücken
genitive	einer	der	Mücke	der	Mücken
dative	einer	der	Mücke	den	Mücken
accusative	eine	die	Mücke	die	Mücken

Synonyms

(mosquito): Gelse (Austria); Moskito; Schnake (south-western Germany; Switzerland); Stechmücke

Derived terms

Further reading

Mücke in Duden online

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