köken: From Middle High German sperwære, from Old High German sparwāri. Cognate with Dutch sperwer, French épervier, Italian sparviere. Related with Sperling (“sparrow”).
köken: Inherited from Middle French esprevier, which see. Cognate with Old High German sparwari (whence German Sperber), Middle Dutch sperware (whence Dutch sperwer), Middle Low German sperwere, all meaning “sparrow hawk”. Compare also Italian sparviere and English sparrow hawk.
köken: Probably from a derivative of Gothic *𐌲𐌰𐌱𐌹𐌻𐌰 (*gabila), which would be related to Proto-West Germanic *gabulu (“fork”); compare Portuguese gavião and Old High German gabila, gabala.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese gavian, of uncertain origin. Possible etymologies include: * From Latin gāvia (“kind of bird; seagull”), with the suffix -ão, or possibly through a Vulgar Latin *gavianus (compare Italian gabbiano); compare gaivota from the same etymon; * From Gothic *𐌲𐌰𐌱𐌹𐌻𐌰 (*gabila, “sparrow hawk”), which would be related to Proto-West Germanic *gabulu. Cognate with Galician gabián,…
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek ξεφτέριν (xephtérin) < ξυπτέριν < ἐξυπτέριον, from Koine Greek ὀξυπτέριον n (oxuptérion, “hawk”) with assimilation of pronunciation [pt] > [ft] and with the influence of ξε- (xe-). a diminutive of Ancient Greek ὀξύπτερος (oxúpteros, “sharp-winged, hence swift-winged”) < ὀξύς (oxús) + πτερ(όν) n (pter(ón), “wing”) + -ος (-os). Compare to ὠκύπτερος (ōkúpteros,…
köken: First attested in the Hunmong jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527, as Middle Korean 새〯매〯 (Yale: sǎymǎy). From 새 (sae, “bird”) + 매 (mae, “hawk”). Note that originally 새 (sae) meant "sparrow", harkening to the prey of the sparrowhawk.
köken: Uncertain. The term parallels other formations in other Indo-European languages, such as Proto-Slavic *àstrę̄bъ, Sanskrit आशुपत्वन् (āśupátvan), and Ancient Greek ὠκύπτερος (ōkúpteros, “swift-winged”). De Vaan argues that the first part of the compound, ac-, possibly derives from Proto-Indo-European *HéHḱus (“swift, quick”). Alternatively, the philologist Claire Le Feuvre argues that this…