fågel

• fogel

From Old Swedish fughl, foghl, from Old Norse fogl, from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz. Cognate with English fowl and German Vogel. In the mid 19th century, the spelling fogel was common, but SAOL 6 (1889) lists the spelling as fågel only.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoːɡəl/, /ˈfoːɡɛl/

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fågel

1. (games) a high placed (hidden) object

   Coordinate terms: fisk, mittemellan

   – Det börjar brännas.
   – Fågel, fisk eller mittemellan?

   – It's getting hot.
   – High, low or in-between?

   (literally, “Bird, fish or in-between?”)

fågel c

1. (zoology) a bird

   Det flyger en fågel där borta

   There is a bird flying over there

   • 2007, Laser Inc, “Det var en gång en fågel [Once upon a time, there was a bird]”‎^[1]:

     Det var en gång en liten fågel. Ja, en fågel. Han bodde på landet, och Roger hette han. Han ville gärna leka med sina vänner, med sina vänner, men det fick inte han. Men denna historia slutar sorgligt, för Roger blev skjuten, skjuten i magen av gamle jägar'n [jägaren] Pär. Han ville hem och äta, äta en fågel med lite potäter, men Roger hann iväg.

     Once upon a time, there was a little bird. Yes, a bird. He lived in the countryside, and Roger was his name. He wanted to play with his friends ["He wanted gladly to play with his friends," in the sense of, "He wanted, with keenness, to play with his friends" – the translation skips the gärna as it doesn't make much difference to the meaning], with his friends, but [that – to play with his friends] he didn't get to. But this story ends sadly, because Roger was shot, shot in the stomach by old hunter Pär ["den gamle jägaren Pär" matches "the old hunter Pär" – skipping "den" makes "jägaren Pär" sound lexicalized]. He wanted to go home and eat, eat a bird with some potatoes, but Roger got away [in time].

• pippi
• pippifågel

• → Finnish: fogeli (Helsinki)

• fågel in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fågel in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH
• Fågel in Svenska Akademiens ordlista öfver svenska språket (6th ed., 1889)
• fågel in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)