raven, crow (bird) · poison-pen letter writer · corbel
çekim: çoğul corbeaux
eş: grand corbeau, corbac, corbacque, corbin, gniasse, grolle
köken: Inherited from Middle French corbeau m, from Old French corbel m, itself either a diminutive of corp m (“raven”), or from a Late Latin corbellus, corvellus m, from Latin corvus m (Vulgar Latin variant *corbus m).
raven (Corvus corax) · A raven, term used for certain other large birds of the genus Corvus. · synonym of ara (“macaw”)
çekim: çoğul raven
köken: From Middle Dutch rāve, formed by rebracketing from the older singular form rāven which was reinterpreted as a plural; the singular raven (plural ravens or ravenen) persisted in some dialects until at least the eighteenth century, well beyond the Middle Dutch period. The Middle Dutch furthermore descends from Old Dutch ravan, from Proto-West Germanic *hrabn, from Proto-Germanic *hrabnaz,…
köken: From Proto-Finnic *karnëh (compare Estonian kaaren), from Proto-Uralic *karne (compare Northern Sami gáranas, Inari Sami káránâs, Erzya кренч (krenč), Komi-Zyrian кырныш (kyrnyš), Tundra Nenets хӑрна (xărna)). Displaced by the borrowed korppi.
aile: hollófekete, holló a hollónak nem vájja ki a szemét, ritka, mint a fehér holló
Etimoloji
From Proto-Italic *korwos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂wós, from a root *ḱorh₂- (“crow, raven”), imitative of harsh sounds; see cornīx (“crow”) for more. The word has been decomposed as from *ḱer- (compare Latin crepō (“to creak, crack”), Sanskrit कृपते (kṛ́pate, “he laments, implores”)) + *-wós (whence Latin -vus).