Etymology

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Today it means: A young female horse. Full definition →

Old Norse fylja
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  1. Old Norse · derived fromfylja
  2. English todayfilly

From Old Norse fylja (whence Danish føl), related to foal. Cognate with Dutch veulen, German Fohlen.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.