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 humm..
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