golden oriole (Oriolus oriolus) · oriole (any bird of the genus Oriolus)
çekim: çoğul wielewalen
köken: From older wiedewaal by assimilation of -d- to -l-, from Middle Dutch wedewale. The first part, wede- probably stems from Proto-West Germanic *widu (“wood, forest”), whereas -wale could be onomatopoeic.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *bȍgъ Old Polish bóg Polish bóg Polish -u- Proto-Slavic *voľà Old Polish wola Polish wola Polish boguwola From bóg + -u- + wola. First attested in 1768.
köken: Inherited from Latin galgulus, from galbulus, from galbus (“yellow”). Compare Aromanian gangur, Sicilian gàjulu (“golden oriole”), Spanish gálgulo and Albanian gargull.
a yellow bird, otherwise unknown, the sight of which was said to cure jaundice; perhaps loriot, golden oriole
çekim: çoğul icterī · tamlayan icterī
köken: From the Ancient Greek ἴκτερος (íkteros, “jaundice”, “a bird of a yellowish-green colour, perhaps the golden oriole”), of uncertain ultimate origin; possibly related to ἴκτις (íktis, “weasel”), ἴκτινος (íktinos), or of Pre-Greek origin.
köken: Akin to Laz მალაღუდე (malağude), მალაღური (malağuri), Mingrelian მალაღური (malaɣuri). Probably a derivative of ლეღვი (leɣvi, “fig”) (itself umlauted from an earlier *ლაღვ- (*laɣv-)) due to bird's fondness of eating figs: compare dialectal მე-ლეღვ-ია (me-leɣv-ia, “golden oriole”), Laz მა-ლუღ-ე (ma-luğ-e), Mingrelian მა-ლუღ-ია (ma-luɣ-ia), all of which are transparently derived from fig.…