wing (of a bird or other flying animal; of poultry; of an aircraft; of a building; of an army; in football and rugby; in politics) · fender, wing (of an automobile) · side, wing, ala
çekim: çoğul ailes
köken: Inherited from Middle French aisle, from Old French aile, from Latin āla (“wing [of animals]”).
aile: à tire-d'aile, ailaire, ailé, aileron, ailette, ailier, avoir du plomb dans l'aile, battre de l'aile, donner des ailes, en donner dans l'aile
wing (of a bird) · wing (a part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building) · wing (a faction of a political movement)
çekim: çoğul πτέρυγες · tamlayan πτέρυγας
köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πτέρῠγᾰ (ptérŭgă), accusative of πτέρῠξ (ptérŭx, “bird's wing”), with semantic loan from French aile for other senses.
a wing of a building · a grand piano · a flank of a military troop
çekim: çoğul flyglar · tamlayan flygels
köken: From German Flügel (“wing”), equivalent to flyga (“to fly”) + -el (“agent suffix”). Compare Danish flygel, Icelandic flygill. Historically also used in the sense of a bird's wing. Doublet of flöjel.
wing (an appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly) · wing (part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air) · wing (a part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building)
wing (one of a pair of flight organs) · wing (plate-like appendage in a large machine that interacts with the environment (e.g., air, water)) · plaque-like elongated element or part in a machine
çekim: çoğul spārni · tamlayan spārna
köken: From Proto-Baltic *sparnas (with lengthening of the *a), from Proto-Indo-European *sper-no- (“wing”), from the stem *per-, *sper- (with s-mobile; or else the /s/ may result from the influence of the stem *sper- (“to twitch, to flicker”)), perhaps meaning originally “over (away from)”, then “carry (away)”, “fly (away)”. Cognates include Lithuanian spar̃nas, Old Church Slavonic перо (pero,…