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: Inherited from Latin galgulus, from galbulus, from galbus (“yellow”). Compare Aromanian gangur, Sicilian gàjulu (“golden oriole”), Spanish gálgulo and Albanian gargull.
köken: Ultimately from Old French oriol, from Latin aureolus, probably via English.
aile: óiréal órga, óiréal tuaisceartach
Etimoloji
The origin of this word is unclear. Some link it to Polish wołać (“to call, to cry, to shout”), and sometimes even further to Latvian valoda (“language”). Others, given the existence of Germanic, Slavic, and Baltic reflexes, reconstruct it to Proto-Indo-European. The most likely connection is perhaps with the adjective valgs (“humid”), since this bird is traditionally considered to announce the…