fledge

Betekenis (Engels)

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.

Synoniemen

feather

🪶

flight

✈️

foster

nurture

plume

raise

rear

breed

wing

🪽

bring up

Vertalingen

emplumecer

emplumar

tüylendirmek

tüylenmek

plume

🪶

ريّش

volar en bandadas

impiumarsi

erwachsen werden

ανατρέφω

πτερώνω

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/flɛd͡ʒ/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: flegge

Overgenomen van Oudengels: *flyċġe

Verwant aan Nederlands: vlug

Verwant aan Nedersaksisch: flügg

Verwant aan Duits: flügge

Verwant aan Duits: flücke

Verwant aan IJslands: 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”)