fowl

Betekenis (Engels)

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

Concepten

gevogelte

hoen

kip

🐔

vogel

🐦

hen

pluimvee

vogels

stuk pluimvee

Synoniemen

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

Vertalingen

ave

🐦

volaille

Geflügel

poule

🐔

oiseau

🐦

ave

🐦

πουλερικό

au

pollo

🐔

πουλί

Huhn

🐔

pollame

avis

🐦

Vogel

🐦

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/faʊl/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: foul

Overgenomen van Oudengels: fugol

Verwant aan Oudengels: flugol

Verwant aan Fries: fûgel

Verwant aan Nedersaksisch: Vagel

Verwant aan Nederlands: vogel

Verwant aan Duits: Vogel

Verwant aan Zweeds: fågel

Verwant aan Deens: -

Verwant aan Noors: 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.