English

aflight

From a- + flight.

Formed from a- + flight

Proto-Indo-European *uds- ‘up, out’

Proto-Germanic *uz- ‘out-’

Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- ‘up, out, over’

English a-

Proto-Indo-European *plewk- ‘to fly’

Proto-Germanic *fleuganą ‘to fly’

Proto-West Germanic *fluhti ‘flight’

Old English flyht ‘flight’

Middle English flight

Today it means

adj Flying.

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