köken: From María + -ica, María being a common feminine given name. Unrelated to the similar Ancient Greek μαρικᾶς (marikâs, “passive male sexual partner, debauchee”).
köken: Probably from Old High German agaza (“magpie”), from Proto-Germanic *agatjō (“magpie”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”). Compare Occitan agaça/gacha, French agace, and possibly Catalan garsa.
chough (bird of the subfamily Pyrrhocoracinae) · Any of a number of more distantly related but superficially similar corvids, such as crows, rooks, jackdaws and certain species of jays. · chatterbox
çekim: çoğul gralhas
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese gralla, from a Vulgar Latin root *gracla, syncopated form of Late Latin grācula, from Latin grāculus, from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-k- (“croak”). Compare Spanish grajo, graja, Catalan gralla, Italian gracchia.
magpie · In particular, the Eurasian magpie (Pica pica) or the Oriental magpie (Pica serica).
eş: 유라시아까치, 한국까치
köken: First attested in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事 / 계림유사), 1103, as Late Old Korean 渴則寄 (Yale: *kacoki). Also attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 가〯치〮 (Yale: kǎchí). The spontaneous tensing of the initial consonant occurred in the late nineteenth century. Spontaneous tensing is a recurrent phenomenon in Modern Korean, motivated by sound-symbolic effects. Probably…
Eurasian magpie, Pica pica · an ill-tempered or unsympathetic woman, especially a middle-aged one; a shrew.
çekim: çoğul skator · tamlayan skatas
köken: From Old Swedish skata, from Old Norse skata, derivative of Old Norse skade (“top, cliff, tree top”; compare Swedish: skate, skati, “tip, top, tree top”), probably more directly “shoot” (cf. Swedish utskott (“protuberance”)), referencing their long tails. The word is possibly related to Old Norse skot, skut (“shoot”), or to skaði (“damage”). Direct cognates includes Old Danish skathæ, Danish…
Eurasian magpie (Pica pica) · any magpie belonging to the genus Pica · a woman or girl who is talkative and naive
çekim: çoğul sroki · tamlayan sroki
eş: gw. (Górny Śląsk) stroka, stróka
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-der.? Proto-Balto-Slavic *śárˀkāˀ Proto-Slavic *sorka Old Polish sroka Polish sroka Inherited from Old Polish sroka, from Proto-Slavic *sorka, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *śárˀkāˀ, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.