Etymology

flyswatter

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Today it means: A hand-held device for swatting flies or other insects, to kill or shoo them. Full definition →

English swatter ← Middle English flye ← Old English flēoge
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*plew-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*plewk-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*pléwketi
  4. Proto-Germanic*fleuganądeverb.
  5. Proto-Germanic*fleugǭ
  6. Proto-West Germanic*fleugā
  7. Old Englishflēoge
  8. Middle Englishflye
  9. Englishfly
  10. Englishswat
  11. Englishswatter
  12. English todayflyswatter

From fly + swatter.

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