fledge

Significat (Anglès)

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.

Sinònims

feather

🪶

flight

✈️

foster

nurture

plume

raise

rear

breed

wing

🪽

bring up

Traduccions

emplumecer

emplumar

tüylendirmek

tüylenmek

plume

🪶

ريّش

volar en bandadas

impiumarsi

erwachsen werden

ανατρέφω

πτερώνω

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/flɛd͡ʒ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: flegge

Heretat de anglès antic: *flyċġe

Cognat amb neerlandès: vlug

Cognat amb baix alemany: flügg

Cognat amb alemany: flügge

Cognat amb alemany: flücke

Cognat amb islandès: 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”)