köken: From Middle French cresserelle, crecerelle (“bird of prey”), usually assumed to be from crecelle (“rattle, wooden reel”) (modern crécelle), of obscure origin. Cognates possibly include: Medieval Latin clisterella f, English kestrel, Neapolitan castariello m and crestariello m, all sharing the same meaning. Derivation from the assumed *Vulgar Latin crepicella, *crepitacillum, a diminutive of…
köken: Possibly from tinniō (“to shriek”, verb) + -unculus (diminutive) if the reading tinn- is correct. Manuscripts show variation in the form of the word. Lindsay 1918 argues that the correct reading is titi- (found in a manuscript of Columella but not of Pliny) and derives the word from an n-stem noun *titiō, titiōn- built on the root of titus (“wood pigeon”), comparing Romance words for woodpigeon…