English
hangingfly
From hanging + fly.
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
Today it means
noun Any insect in the mecopteran family Bittacidae.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / hangingfly