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- fletcher



[fletcher 词源字典] - fletcher: see fledge
[fletcher etymology, fletcher origin, 英语词源] - fletcher (n.)




- "arrow-maker," early 14c. (as a surname attested from 1203), from Old French flechier "maker of arrows," from fleche "arrow," which is probably from Frankish, from Proto-Germanic *fleug-ika- (compare Old Low German fliuca, Middle Dutch vliecke), from PIE *pleuk- "to fly," extended form of root *pleu- "to flow" (see pluvial).