regshoe: Redwing, a brown bird with a red wing patch, perched in a tree (Default)
regshoe ([personal profile] regshoe) wrote 2022-01-26 07:02 pm (UTC)

All this etymology is fascinating stuff! Losing the G and the vowel changes cunningly disguised the word 'fowl', I think.
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