Noun: fowl
| Singular | fowl |
| Plural | fowl; fowls |
Sample Sentences
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And now I take vpon me the aduentures of holy thynges / & now I see and vnderstande that myn old synne hyndereth me and shameth me / so that I had no power to stere nor speke whan the holy blood appiered afore me / So thus he sorowed til hit was day / & herd the fowles synge / thenne somwhat he was comforted (And now I take upon myself the adventures of holy things / And now I see and understand that my old sin hinders me and shames me / so that I had no power to steer nor speak when the holy blood appeared afore me / So thus he sorrowed till it was day / and heard the fowls sing / then somewhat he was comforted) [1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XIX, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII:]
Nouns inflected like fowl
seiyuu,
sensei,
senryu,
whaanau,
xianbing,
samlor,
salumi,
salmon,
sika deer,
shrimp,
shumai,
eastern moa,
Guarani-Kaiowá,
northern shrimp,
izakaya,
pūkeko,
autopaizuri,
yukata,
yueqin,
panzerotti, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English foul, foghel, fowel, fowele, from Old English fugol (“bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *fugl, from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz, dissimilated variant of *fluglaz (compare Old English flugol ‘fleeing’, Mercian fluglas heofun ‘birds of the air’), from *fleuganą (“to fly”). Cognate with West Frisian fûgel, Low German Vagel, Dutch vogel, German Vogel, Swedish fågel, Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk fugl. Doublet of voël. More at fly. See: Middle English Nouns '
foul', Old English Nouns '
fugol', Dutch Nouns '
vogel', German Nouns '
Vogel', Swedish Nouns '
fågel'.
Verbs referencing "fowl"
English Nouns
faggot, English Nouns
feygele, German Nouns
Vogel, Danish Nouns
fugl, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
fugl, Swedish Nouns
fågel, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
faugl.