fledge

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

plume

🪶

Synonymes

feather

🪶

flight

✈️

foster

nurture

plume

raise

rear

breed

wing

🪽

bring up

Traductions

tüylenmek

emplumar

emplumecer

tüylendirmek

impiumarsi

volar en bandadas

ريّش

erwachsen werden

ανατρέφω

πτερώνω

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/flɛd͡ʒ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: flegge

Hérité de ancien anglais: *flyċġe

Appartenant à néerlandais: vlug

Appartenant à bas-allemand: flügg

Appartenant à allemand: flügge

Appartenant à allemand: flücke

Appartenant à islandais: 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”)