köken: Probably ultimately from a derivative of Late Latin cardella, cardellus, from Latin carduelis, from carduus. Compare Italian cardellino, cardello, cardelletto, Romanian căldăraș, Spanish cardelina.
köken: Diminutive of cardello, from Late Latin cardellus, from Latin carduelis, from carduus. Compare French chardonneret, Romanian căldăraș, Spanish cardelina.
European goldfinch, Eurasian goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
çekim: çoğul distelvinken
eş: putter
köken: From Middle Dutch distelvinc. By surface analysis, distel (“thistle”) + vink (“finch”). Goldfinches commonly eat thistle seeds and use thistle down as nest material, and are as such commonly named after this plant; compare English thistlefinch, German Distelfink, Latin carduelis.
European goldfinch, Eurasian goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) · any bird of the species in the genus Carduelis (including also e.g. sitruunahemppo (“citril finch”) and korsikanhemppo (“Corsican finch”)) · Any of the birds in some other related genera, see the list of compounds below.
çekim: çoğul tiklit · tamlayan tiklin
köken: Probably from German Stieglitz, from Middle High German stigliz, stigeliz, stiglitze, stigelitze, from Old Czech stehlec (now Czech stehlík, Slovak stehlík), from Proto-Slavic *ščigъlъ, *ščegъlъ, a Late Common Slavic onomatopoeia.
a thistlefinch, Eurasian goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
çekim: çoğul carduēlēs · tamlayan carduēlis
köken: From carduus (“wild thistle, artichoke”) + -ēlis. Goldfinches commonly eat thistle seeds and use thistle down as nest material, and are as such commonly named after this plant; compare English thistlefinch, Dutch distelvink.
goldfinch, Eurasian goldfinch, European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
çekim: çoğul xílgaros
köken: Obscure. Related to Spanish jilguero, which derives from an older silguero; perhaps from sirgo (“silk”), but the suffix -aro is usually found in pre-Latin words. Compare also Portuguese pintassilgo.
un sinfín de paxaros ben cantores reiseñores o xílgaro e o sirín
Inherited from Middle High German stigliz, stigelitze, from Old Czech stehlec, derived from Proto-Slavic *ščegъlъ. Cognate with modern Czech stehlík, Slovak stehlík, Polish szczygieł, Ukrainian щи́голь (ščýholʹ), Russian щего́л (ščegól), all referring to the same bird.