English

flycatch

From fly + catch.

A compound of fly + catch

Proto-Indo-European *plew- ‘to fly, flow, run’

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Proto-Germanic *fleugǭ ‘flying insect, fly’

Proto-West Germanic *fleugā ‘fly’

Old English flēge ‘a fly’

Middle English fflye

English fly

Latin capiō ‘to take’

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Late Latin captiō

Old French chacier

Anglo-Norman cachier

Middle English cacchen

English catch

Today it means

verb To catch (another creature) while in flight.

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

Etymograph / flycatch