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語源

From Middle English flegge, fligge, flygge, from 古期英語 *flyċġe (“able to fly, fledged”) (attested in *unflyċġe, unfligge (“unfledged”)), from Proto-West Germanic *flugī, from Proto-Germanic *flugjaz (“able to fly, fledged”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to run, flow, be swift, flee, fly”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /flɛd͡ʒ/
  • 韻: -ɛdʒ

動詞

fledge (三人称単数 現在形 fledges, 現在分詞 fledging, 過去形および過去分詞形 fledged)

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.

派生語

• fledgling
• full-fledged
• unfledged

関連する語

• fletch
• fletcher
• fligger

形容詞

fledge (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     his shoulders, fledge with wings