vogel

• veugel (obsolete)
• fogel

From Middle Dutch vōgel, from Old Dutch fogal, vogal, from Proto-West Germanic *fugl, from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz. Cognate with German Vogel, English fowl, Icelandic fugl.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvoːɣəl/, (Hollandic) [ˈfoʊ̯χɔɫ]

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• Hyphenation: vo‧gel
• Rhymes: -oːɣəl

vogel m (plural vogels or vogelen, diminutive vogeltje n or vogelijn n)

1. bird, any member of the class Aves
2. a feathered target in archery or shooting

   Synonym: gaai

3. (figuratively, slang) A dude, a cat (slang term for a man).

The word vogel is one of the few words where the obsolete Dutch diminutive suffix -lijn can still be encountered: vogelijn (“little bird”) is chiefly poetic and can be found in poems and songs, but is not often used elsewhere.

• Afrikaans: voël
  • → English: voël
• Jersey Dutch: fœüxel
• Negerhollands: vogel
• Skepi Creole Dutch: fogul
• →? Sranan Tongo: fowru, vol, vool
  • → Saramaccan: fóu

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

• golve, vloge, volge

From Old Dutch fogal, from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz.

vōgel m

1. bird

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• vuegel

• Dutch: vogel
  • 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

• “voghel (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “vogel”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ǫgъlъ.

• IPA^(key): /ʋóːɡəʋ/

vọ̑gəł m inan

1. Alternative form of ọ̑gəł (“corner”)

• “vogel”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran