fogal

• vogal

From Proto-West Germanic *fugl, from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz.

fogal m

1. bird

   Thie fogal ne is hiera. Thie is bi themo thorpe.

   The bird is not here. It (literally "he") is in the town.

   • Hebban olla vogala nestas hagunnan

     All birds have started to build their nests

head=fogal

• Middle Dutch: vōgel
  • Dutch: vogel, veugel (obsolete), fogel
    • Afrikaans: voël
      • → English: voël
    • Jersey Dutch: fœüxel
    • Negerhollands: vogel
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: fogul
    • →? Sranan Tongo: fowru, vol, vool
      • → Saramaccan: fóu
  • Limburgish: vogel, voeagel
  • West Flemish: veugel
  • Zealandic: veugel

• “fogal”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• fugal

From Proto-West Germanic *fugl, from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz, whence also Old English fugol, Old Norse fugl.

fogal m

1. bird

• fogalōn
• sēfogal

• Middle High German: vogel
  • Alemannic German: Fogel, Vogel
  • Central Franconian: Vuggel, Vugel (Colognian Academy spelling), Vuul (scattered variant in Moselle Franconian)

    Hunsrik: Foghel

    Kölsch: Furrel

  • Cimbrian: vóoghel, bóoghel, vogl
  • German: Vogel
  • Luxembourgish: Vugel, Vull
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Pennsylvania German: Voggel

  • Vilamovian: föguł
  • Yiddish: פֿויגל (foygl)

From fogo +‎ -al. Compare Medieval Latin focālis (“hearth tax”).

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: fo‧gal

fogal m (plural fogais)

1. (historical, taxation) hearth tax, a tax levied on each household
   • 1853, François-René de Chateaubriand, Memorias d'alem da campa Volume 2, Typographia de J. Lourenço de Sousa, page 70:

     O focal (census pro singulis FOCIS exactus) era um censo, ou uma espécie de imposto, que os plebeus pagavam por cada fogo.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “fogal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
• “fogal”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024