Etymology

feygele

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Today it means: A little bird. Full definition →

Yiddish פֿייגעלע ← Old High German fogal
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  1. Old High German · derived fromfogal
  2. Yiddish · borrowed fromפֿייגעלע
  3. English todayfeygele

From Yiddish פֿייגעלע (feygele), a diminutive of פֿויגל (foygl, “bird”), from Old High German fogal. Cognate with English fowl.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.