fowl

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A bird.
2. A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.
3. Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans, together forming the clade Galloanserae.

Verb

To hunt fowl.

Adj

foul

Sinonieme

chicken

🐔

poultry

bird

🐦

hen

🐔

cock

domestic fowl

birds

chook

pullets

living creatures

gallinaceous bird

common scrub hen

game

life

wild

wildfowl

gallinacean

game bird

bird meat

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/faʊl/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Middle English foul, foghel, fowel, fowele, from Old English fugol (“bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *fugl, from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz, dissimilated variant of *fluglaz (compare Old English flugol ‘fleeing’, Mercian fluglas heofun ‘birds of the air’), from *fleuganą (“to fly”). Cognate with West Frisian fûgel, Low German Vagel, Dutch vogel, German Vogel, Swedish fågel, Danish and Norwegian fugl. Doublet of voël. More at fly.