vijfwouter

Concepts

butterfly

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Synonyms

kapel

schoenlapper

vlinder

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boterschijt

botervlieg

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pennenvogel

pepel

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zomervogel

fladderaar

Translations

فَرَاشَة

babaiana

paloma

palometa

papalló

papallona

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papaió

Falter

Schmetterling

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Tagfalter

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πεταλούδα

papillon

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farfalla

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pelatînk

pepûle

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Dutch: vīvalter

Inherited from Old Dutch: *fifaltra

Cognate with Old Saxon: fifoldaro

Cognate with Old High German: fifaltra

Cognate with Old English: fifalde

Cognate with Old Norse: fifrildi

Cognate with Latin: papilio

Cognate with Prussian: pepelis

Cognate with Lithuanian: papelučkà

In summary

Folk-etymological alteration of an unattested western form (with regular shift of -alt- to -out-; compare woud) of the attested Middle Dutch vīvalter (an eastern form, as evidenced by the lack of the aforementioned shift to -out-), from Old Dutch *fifaltra, from Proto-Germanic *fifaldǭ. Germanic cognates include Old Saxon fifoldaro, Old High German fifaltra, Old English fifalde, Old Norse fifrildi. More distantly related to Latin papilio (“butterfly”), Old Prussian pepelis (“a bird”), Lithuanian papelučkà (“moth, owlling”).