fledgling vs inchoative

fledgling

adj
  • Emergent or rising. 

  • Untried or inexperienced. 

noun
  • A young bird which has just developed its flight feathers (notably wings). 

  • An insect that has just fledged, i.e. undergone its final moult to become an adult or imago. 

  • An immature, naïve or inexperienced person. 

inchoative

adj
  • Aspectually indicating that a state is about to be entered or is in the process of being entered. 

  • At the beginning, still in an unformed state. 

  • Inflected in or relating to the inchoative aspect. 

noun
  • An inchoative construction. 

How often have the words fledgling and inchoative occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )