Etymology

hindwing

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English wing ← Middle English hinde ← Old English hindan
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*hinder
  2. Old Englishhindan
  3. Middle Englishhinde
  4. Englishhind
  5. Englishwing
  6. English todayhindwing

From hind + wing.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.