The story
- Middle English · inherited fromdogflye
- English todaydogfly
From Middle English dogflye, dogge flie, equivalent to dog + fly, chiefly after post-classical Latin cynomyia and its etymon Ancient Greek κυνάμυια (kunámuia) (in Hellenistic Greek κυνόμυια (kunómuia)). Compare Old English hundes lūs.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.