Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/fugl

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

From Proto-Germanic *fuglaz.

*fugl m^[1]

1. bird

• *fuglōn

• Old English: fugol, fugel, fugul, *flugol — attested as fluglas (pl)
  • Middle English: fowel, fowele, foul, foghel, fuȝel, foȝel, foughel, fouel, fowl
    • English: fowl
    • Scots: foul, fule
    • Yola: fowlès (plural)
• Old Frisian: fugel
  • North Frisian:
    • Föhr-Amrum: fögel
    • Hallig: fugel
    • Goesharde and Mooring: föögel
  • Saterland Frisian: Fúgel, Fuugel
  • West Frisian: fûgel
• Old Saxon: fugal
  • Middle Low German: vōgel
    • German Low German: Vogel, Vögel
    • Low German: Vagel, Vögel
    • Plautdietsch: Voagel
• Old Dutch: fogal, vogal
  • Middle Dutch: vōgel
    • Dutch: vogel, veugel (obsolete), fogel
      • Afrikaans: voël
        • → English: voël
      • Jersey Dutch: fœüxel
      • Negerhollands: vogel
      • Skepi Creole Dutch: fogul
      • →? Sranan Tongo: fowru, vol, vool
        • → Saramaccan: fóu
    • Limburgish: vogel, voeagel
    • West Flemish: veugel
    • Zealandic: veugel
• Old High German: fogal, fugal
  • Middle High German: vogel
    • Alemannic German: Fogel, Vogel
    • Central Franconian: Vuggel, Vugel (Colognian Academy spelling), Vuul (scattered variant in Moselle Franconian)

      Hunsrik: Foghel

      Kölsch: Furrel

    • Cimbrian: vóoghel, bóoghel, vogl
    • German: Vogel
    • Luxembourgish: Vugel, Vull
    • Rhine Franconian:

      Pennsylvania German: Voggel

    • Vilamovian: föguł
    • Yiddish: פֿויגל (foygl)