Etymograph

English

Wingdings

Blend of wing + dingbat, introduced as a trademark by Microsoft.

A blend of wing + dingbat

Old Norse vængr

Middle English winge ‘a wing’

English wing

The story

Blend of wing + dingbat, introduced as a trademark by Microsoft.

Today it means

name A dingbat font in which each character is represented by an unrelated symbol.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Wingdings