Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo hunt fowl. · To use or traverse in pursuit of fowls.
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, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk fugl. Doublet of voël. More at fly.
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*plewk-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionfoulenm
- Inherited-form mentionfugolang · bird
- Inherited-form mention*fuglgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*fuglazgem-pro
- Cognate mentionflugolang
- Cognate mentionfûgelfy
- Cognate mentionVagelnds
- Cognate mentionvogelnl
- Cognate mentionVogelde
- Cognate mentionfågelsv
- Doublet mentionvoëlen
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