fledge

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Conceptos

emplumar

emplumecer

volar en bandadas

Sinónimos

feather

🪶

flight

✈️

foster

nurture

plume

raise

rear

breed

wing

🪽

bring up

Traducciones

tüylendirmek

tüylenmek

ανατρέφω

πτερώνω

ريّش

impiumarsi

plume

🪶

erwachsen werden

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/flɛd͡ʒ/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: flegge

Heredado de inglés antiguo: *flyċġe

Cognado con neerlandés: vlug

Cognado con bajo alemán: flügg

Cognado con alemán: flügge

Cognado con alemán: flücke

Cognado con islandés: 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”)