모기

 

★ 못/ 모기

★ mere = 연못

★ moat = 해자(垓子) = 못

★ mosquito = 모기

★ 모기 = ? 못과 같이 고여 있는 물에서 사는 벌레 = ? 민간어원설

 

★ 1580s, from Spanish mosquito "little gnat," diminutive of mosca "fly," from Latin musca "fly," from PIE root *mu- "gnat, fly," imitative of insect buzzing (compare Sanskrit maksa-, Greek myia, Old English mycg, Modern English midge, Old Church Slavonic mucha), perhaps imitative of the sound of humming insects. 

cf. http://www.etymonline.com