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wing
wing:
[12]
Wing
was borrowed from Old Norse
vængir
, source also of Swedish and Danish
vinge
and Norwegian
veng
. This came ultimately from the Indo-European base *
we
- ‘blow’, and the missing semantic link with ‘wing’ may be ‘flutter’.