tyrantofthefirmament:

namafangirl replied to your post:(words for wings) Oh! Well when I looked them up I…

In my language we have 2 words for a wing, although i guess that won’t help to someone who writes in english, i just thought it would be interesting to know…

Ooh cool! What are they, and do they mean slightly different things? Like is one a bird wing and one an airplane wing for example? I’m interested in things like that.

one is כנף (kanaf) which is the one we use both for a bird wing and an airplane wing, the other is אבר (ever) which used solely for a bird wing and is apparently from the same source as איבר (eivar) which means “a limb”

 actually, since my  language is over 5000 years old, we don’t really have a word for an airplane wing, we just use the same one as a bird wing. אבר is just older and more poetic, so we don’t use it for an airplane wing, and not for a bird wing in everyday use either…