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flightling

noun

Etymology

From flight (“fleeing”) + -ling. Cognate with West Frisian flechtling (“refugee”), Dutch vluchteling (“refugee”), German Low German Flüchtling (“refugee”), German Flüchtling (“refugee”). Compare also Danish flygtning (“refugee”), Swedish flykting (“refugee”), Norwegian flyktning (“refugee”).

  1. derived from *plewk-✻
  2. inherited from *fluhti✻
  3. inherited from flyht
  4. inherited from flight
  5. suffixed as flightling — “flight + -ling”

Definitions

  1. One who flees or takes flight

    One who flees or takes flight; an escapee, fugitive, or refugee.

    • We were the witnesses not of a few handsful of casual flightlings, but of the general exodus of the inhabitants of a whole territory.
    • Refugees, flightlings, black things, whose dissident passage through understanding is often taken for a kind of lawless freedom.

  2. A young or little flyer (person or creature that flies).

    • “Very good, flightlings,” Tanta said as she passed them. “Soon you'll be flying. Then you won't be in the baby glade any more.” The flightlings smiled proudly at each other. “Why haven't you got wings?” Tam asked Tanta shyly.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA