English

flighter

Uncertain, perhaps flight + -er (relational noun suffix).

Formed from flight + -er

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

noun A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, so as to produce a circular current in the liquor.

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

Etymograph / flighter