vane

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

1. A weather vane.
2. Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.
3. The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.
4. A sight on a sextant or compass.
5. One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.

Έννοιες

βραχίωνας

πτερύγιο

ανεμοδείκτης

προπέλα

πτέρυξ έλικα

Συνώνυμα

weather vane

blade

weathercock

weathervane

wind vane

web

paddle

fan

wing

🪽

ala

foil

folium

hand

✋

lamina

leaf

limb

lobe

pennon

pinion

sail

ventilator

vexillum

leaf blade

peep-sight

breech-sight

wind cone

weather-vane

hairline pointer

aiming device

beater blade

guidance unit

fluid director

rear finder

wheel blade

weaverbird

annexe

banner

blower

deflector

ell

fin

finder

flag

flank

Μεταφράσεις

girouette

veleta

pale

Wetterfahne

aspa

déflecteur de volet

Windfahne

schop

cata-vento

aube

aile

🪽

banderuola

windhaan

aspa

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/veɪn/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Κληρονομήθηκε από Μέσα Αγγλικά: vane

Κληρονομήθηκε από Παλαιά Αγγλικά: fana

Συγγενές με Saterfriesisch: Foone

Συγγενές με Ολλανδικά: vaan

Συγγενές με Γερμανικά: Fahne

In summary

From Middle English vane, Southern Middle English variant of fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner, flag”), from Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“something woven; weave; tissue; fabric; cloth”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foone (“flag, banner”), Dutch vaan (“banner, flag”), German Low German Fahn (“flag”), German Fahne. Doublet of obsolete fane (“weathercock; banner”) and fanon.