fowl
意味
- にわとり(鶏)(アヒル・七面鳥など)家で飼う鳥
- 《修飾語を伴って》《集合的に;複数扱い》
- 鶏肉,鳥肉
例文
The fowls were well roasted by the cook.
鳥は料理人がほどよく焼いた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English foul, foghel, fowel, fowele, from Old English fugol (“bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *fugl, from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz, dissimilated variant of *fluglaz (compare Old English flugol ‘fleeing’, Mercian fluglas heofun ‘birds of the air’), from *fleuganą (“to fly”). Cognate with West Frisian fûgel, Low German Vagel, Dutch vogel, German Vogel, Swedish fågel, Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk fugl. Doublet of voël. More at fly.