fledge

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. To care for a young bird until it is capable of flight.
2. To grow, cover or be covered with feathers.
3. To decorate with feathers.
4. 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

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/flɛd͡ʒ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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”)