fowl

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. A bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called gamefowl, and waterfowl (order Anseriformes: ducks, geese, swans, etc.), which together form the clade Galloanserae.
2. (archaic) Any bird.

Verb

To hunt fowl.

Adj

foul

Concetti

pollo

🐔

pollame

volatile

ucello

uccello

🐦

galina

gallina

🐔

volàtili

cacciagione

sinonimi

chicken

🐔

poultry

bird

🐦

hen

🐔

cock

domestic fowl

birds

chook

pullets

living creatures

gallinaceous bird

common scrub hen

game

life

wild

wildfowl

gallinacean

game bird

bird meat

Traduzioni

ave

🐦

volaille

Geflügel

oiseau

🐦

poule

🐔

πουλερικό

gevogelte

ave

🐦

au

πουλί

Huhn

🐔

kip

🐔

hoen

vogel

🐦

avis

🐦

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/faʊl/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: foul

Ereditato da inglese antico: fugol

Affine inglese antico: flugol

Affine frisone occidentale: fûgel

Affine basso tedesco: Vagel

Affine olandese: vogel

Affine tedesco: Vogel

Affine svedese: fågel

Affine danese: -

Affine norvegese: fugl

In summary

From Middle English foul, foghel, fowel, fowele, from Old English fugol (“bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *fugl, from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz, dissimilated variant of *fluglaz (compare Old English flugol ‘fleeing’, Mercian fluglas heofun ‘birds of the air’), from *fleuganą (“to fly”). Cognate with West Frisian fûgel, Low German Vagel, Dutch vogel, German Vogel, Swedish fågel, Danish and Norwegian fugl. Doublet of voël. More at fly.