English
shadefly
From shade + fly.
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- ‘darkness, shadow’
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Proto-Germanic *skaduz ‘a shadow’
Proto-West Germanic *skadu ‘shadow’
Old English sċeadu ‘shadow’
Middle English schade ‘a shadow’
English shade
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 of the butterflies of the genus Coenyra.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / shadefly