fledge

Pronunciation: /flɛd͡ʒ/

The English word “fledge” has 5 meanings listed here.

verb

To care for a young bird until it is capable of flight.
To grow, cover or be covered with feathers.
To decorate with feathers.
To complete the last moult and become a winged adult insect.

adjective

Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.

Etymology

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…

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