Schwalbe

Proper noun

 * 1)  The World War II Messerschmitt Me-262 jet fighter.

Etymology
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬 (modern 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (modern 🇨🇬), Old Norse (🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).

The football sense from a saying „Der fliegt wie ’ne Schwalbe!“ (“The man flies like a swallow!”), or the like, punning on in the sense of “to fall”. Compare.

Noun

 * 1) swallow, martin small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family
 * 2)  dive deliberate fall, simulated foul
 * 3)  Schwalbe WWII Messerschmitt Me-262 jet fighter