fugol

Old English

Alternative forms

fugel, fugul
*flugol — attested as fluglas (pl)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fugl, from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz. Cognate with Old Frisian fugel, Old Saxon fugal, Old Dutch fogal, Old High German fogal, Old Norse fugl, Gothic 𐍆𐌿𐌲𐌻𐍃 (fugls).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfu.ɡol/, [ˈfu.ɣol]

Noun

fugol m

bird
- 10th century, The Wanderer:
  wlonc bī wealle. · Sume wīġ fornōm,
  ferede in forðweġe; · sumne fugel ōþbær
  ofer hēanne holm; · sumne sē hāra wulf
  dēaðe ġedǣlde, · sumne drēoriġhlēor
  in eorðsċræfe · eorl ġehȳdde.
  proud by the wall. The war took away some men,
  carried into the forth-way; a bird bore away someone
  over deep sea; the grey wolf shared someone with death;
  a sad-faced warrior hid someone in earthen cave.

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	fugol	fuglas
accusative	fugol	fuglas
genitive	fugles	fugla
dative	fugle	fuglum

It is often declined without syncope:

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	fugol	fugolas
accusative	fugol	fugolas
genitive	fugoles	fugola
dative	fugole	fugolum

Derived terms

brimfugol (“seabird, seagull”)
cwēnfugol (“female bird, hen”)
dopfugol (“waterfowl”)
fuglere (“fowler”)
fuglian (“to catch birds”)
fugolcynn (“birdkind”)
fugoloþ (“fowling”)
gōsfugol (“goose”)
hafocfugol (“hawk”)
heofonfugol (“bird of the sky”)
nēfugol (“carrion bird”)
Sǣfugol (“a given name”)

Descendants

Middle English: fowel, fowele, foul, foghel, fuȝel, foȝel, foughel, fouel, fowl
- English: fowl
- Scots: foul, fule
- Yola: fowlès (plural)

References

Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “fugol”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.