English translation of "Huegel" - "wing"

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246 months ago

Andrea Servi (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	German > English
Subject:	Technical / Engineering
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	Huegel
Context:	Flugzeuge
Keywords:	-

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246 months ago

wrote:

wing

My comment:

or aerofoil/airfoil (Tragfl�che), as hill or knoll both do not fit in with the context. I'm afraid there's a misspelling of the German "Fl�gel" which is "wing" in English even in the aviatic meaning.

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246 months ago

wrote:

Possible, though not as certain as you seem to believe. What on earth is 'aviatic'?

246 months ago

Charles Warcup wrote:

What on earth could aviatic possibly be than an adjectival back-form from aviation? Aviatic is not in English usage, but frequently found elsewhere - and if Shakespeare had stuck to words which already existed English would be a very meagre thing. I suggest that it would have been more helpful simply to have pointed out the common English terms 'aeronautic', 'aeronautical' (both more clumsy than aviatic) without resorting to rhetorical irony.

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