köken: From Middle High German iule, iuwel, from Old High German ūwila, from a variant of Proto-Germanic *uwwalǭ (compare Dutch uil, West Frisian ûle, English owl), diminutive of *uwwǭ ‘eagle-owl’ (compare German Uhu), of imitative origin or a variant of *ūfaz, *ūfǭ (compare Swedish uv ‘horned owl’, Bavarian Auf), from Proto-Indo-European *up-.
köken: Unknown. Possibly from Late Latin curusa or of onomatopoetic origin. Cognate with Galician, Asturian, and Leonese curuxa, Mirandese queruja and Spanish coruja, curuja.
owl (with ear tufts) · great horned owl, long eared owl
köken: Equivalent to 부엉 (bueong, “hoot”, onomatopoeia) + -이 (-i, noun-deriving suffix). First attested as Middle Korean 부〮허ᇰ (pwúhèng) in the Hunminjeong'eum haerye (訓民正音解例 / 훈민정음해례), 29a, 1446, without the suffix. With the suffix, first attested as Early Modern Korean 부헝이 (pwuhengi) in the Yeogeoyuhae (譯語類解 / 역어유해), 下:27b, 1690.
köken: From Late Modern Swedish ugla, from Old Swedish uggla, from Old Norse ugla (compare Danish ugle, Icelandic ugla), from Proto-Germanic *uwwalǭ (compare English owl, Dutch uil, German Eule), diminutive of *uwwǭ (“eagle-owl”) (compare German Uhu), of imitative origin or a variant of *ūfaz, *ūfǭ (compare Swedish uv, Bavarian Auf), from Proto-Indo-European *up-. Feminine in Late Modern Swedish. Akin…
From an imitative reduplicated root, perhaps ultimately Proto-Indo-European *(H)ulu(l)- (“to cry out, howl; owl”). Compare Sanskrit उलूक (ulūka, “owl”), sometimes also compared to Hittite 𒄷𒉿𒆷𒀸 (ḫu-wa-la-aš, “a kind of bird: owl?”) and Proto-Germanic *uwwalǭ (“owl”), though these may all be independent onomatopoeias. More at ululō (“howl, screech”). Compare also upupa.