The story
- Old English · inherited frommyċġnett“mosquito net”
- Middle English · inherited from*migge-net
- English todaymidge net
From Middle English *migge-net, from Old English myċġnett (“mosquito net”), equivalent to midge + net. Cognate with West Frisian muggennet, Dutch muggennet, German Mückennetz, Danish myggenet, Swedish myggnät.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.