fledge

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

1. (transitive) To care for a young bird until it is capable of flight.
2. (intransitive) To grow, cover or be covered with feathers.
3. (transitive) To decorate with feathers.
4. (intransitive) To complete the last moult and become a winged adult insect.

Adj

Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.

Sinonieme

feather

🪶

flight

✈️

foster

nurture

plume

raise

rear

breed

wing

🪽

bring up

Vertalings

emplumecer

emplumar

tüylendirmek

tüylenmek

plume

🪶

ريّش

volar en bandadas

impiumarsi

erwachsen werden

ανατρέφω

πτερώνω

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/flɛd͡ʒ/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: flegge

Geërf van Old English: *flyċġe

Verwante met Nederlands: vlug

Verwante met Nederduits: flügg

Verwante met Duits: flügge

Verwante met Duits: flücke

Verwante met Yslands: fleygur

In summary

From Middle English flegge, fligge, flygge, from Old English *flyċġe (“able to fly, fledged”) (attested in *unflyċġe, unfligge (“unfledged”)), from Proto-West Germanic *flugi, from Proto-Germanic *flugjaz (“able to fly, fledged”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to run, flow, be swift, flee, fly”).
Cognates
From Proto-Germanic: Dutch vlug (“fledged, able to fly, nimble, swift”), Low German flügg (“fledged”), German flügge, German flücke (“fledged”), Icelandic fleygur (“able to fly, fledged”)