Etymograph

English

fegg

Blend of fake + egg.

A blend of fake + egg

Proto-West Germanic *fegōn ‘to clean up, polish’

Old Saxon fegōn

Middle Low German vēgen

German Low German fegen

English feague ‘to spruce up, embellish’

English fake

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm ‘egg’

Proto-Germanic *ajją ‘egg’

Old Norse egg ‘egg’

Middle English eg ‘egg of a domestic or wild fowl’

English egg

Today it means

noun A fake egg.

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

Etymograph / fegg