Etymograph

English

feygele

Feygele comes from Yiddish פֿייגעלע ‘birdie, little bird’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *fuglaz.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*fuglaz‘bird’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*fugl‘bird’reconstructed
  3. Old High Germanc. 750–1050fogal‘bird’
  4. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350vogel
  5. Yiddishmodernפֿויגלfoygl‘bird’
  6. Yiddish, derivedmodernפֿייגעלעfeygele‘birdie, little bird’diminutive of פֿויגל
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1999feygele

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*fuglaz‘bird’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*fugl‘bird’reconstructed
  3. Old High Germanc. 750–1050fogal‘bird’
  4. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350vogel
  5. Yiddishmodernפֿויגלfoygl‘bird’
  6. Yiddish, derivedmodernפֿייגעלעfeygele‘birdie, little bird’diminutive of פֿויגל
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1999feygele

Earliest quotation: 1999, [email protected], Our Commodification: “When will they introduce a scantily clad, ultrabuff, humpa-hunka…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *plewk- ‘to fly’

fly, flew, flown, flock, flee, floss, flay, 9 more

through Proto-West Germanic *fugl ‘bird’

fowler, fowl, 1 more

through Middle High German vogel

fogle

Today it means

noun A little bird.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *fuglaz / feygele

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