## Etymology
From midge (Old English mycg 'gnat, small fly', from Proto-Germanic *mugjō) + the diminutive suffix -et, coined in the 19th century to mean 'something very small'.

## AI Etymology
Midget comes from midge (Old English mycg 'gnat, small fly', from Proto-Germanic *mugjō) + the diminutive suffix -et, coined in the 19th century to mean 'something very small'. The etymological trail includes Old English mycg and Proto-Germanic *mugjō. As a noun, midget means a very small thing or, now offensively, a very short person. The same family is visible in related forms such as midge. Morphologically, the word is built from the elements named in its history, so the modern form preserves a visible compound, prefix, or suffix structure.

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