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.

Sinónimos

feather

🪶

flight

✈️

foster

nurture

plume

raise

rear

breed

wing

🪽

bring up

Traducións

emplumecer

emplumar

tüylendirmek

tüylenmek

plume

🪶

ريّش

volar en bandadas

impiumarsi

erwachsen werden

ανατρέφω

πτερώνω

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/flɛd͡ʒ/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: flegge

Herdado de Old English: *flyċġe

Relativo a neerlandés: vlug

Relativo a baixo alemán: flügg

Relativo a alemán: flügge

Relativo a alemán: flücke

Relativo a 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”)