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... name of a place , it is not always clear whether the syllable refers to bird , bride , or St Bridget : but Birdham ... provincial name for the bird . It was doubtless the mastery of the Normans in England that was responsible for the ...
... name of a place , it is not always clear whether the syllable refers to bird , bride , or St Bridget : but Birdham ... provincial name for the bird . It was doubtless the mastery of the Normans in England that was responsible for the ...
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... names , now used for the most part only locally , keep nightingale company ; Yaffle , the commonest provincial name for the green woodpecker , is an imitative name , a 19th - century dialect word meaning to ' bark ' , ' mutter ' , or ...
... names , now used for the most part only locally , keep nightingale company ; Yaffle , the commonest provincial name for the green woodpecker , is an imitative name , a 19th - century dialect word meaning to ' bark ' , ' mutter ' , or ...
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... name , especially for the female in Cambridgeshire . Whew ( a Yorkshire word for a factory - whistle ) is another long - standing provincial name which copies the drake's whee - oo . Beside English wigeon there is a later ( seventeenth ...
... name , especially for the female in Cambridgeshire . Whew ( a Yorkshire word for a factory - whistle ) is another long - standing provincial name which copies the drake's whee - oo . Beside English wigeon there is a later ( seventeenth ...
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16th century adjective ancient animal appears Arabic Aryans became Bible bird bird-names bird's borrowed Britain British called Celtic chaffinch Chapter Chaucer chough cock cognate colour common connected corruption crane denote derived dialect Dictionary diminutive Domesday Book dotterel duck Dutch earlier early England English epithet equivalent etymology fact folk-etymology French genus Germanic languages gives Greek habit heron horse human imitative implies Indo-European instance Italian language lapwing lark Late Latin later Linnaeus Low German Max Müller meaning meant mediaeval Middle Dutch Middle English Natural History nature-words Norse older onomatopoetic origin Parlement of Foules perhaps place-names plant primitive probably provincial name reference represents Roman root Sanskrit Saxon says Scandinavian seems seen sense Shakespeare sound Spanish species speech spelling spelt stem suggest swan Swedish syllable tongue traced tree Turner verb Welsh whence whimbrel wild Willughby woodpecker word wren yellow