köken: Inherited from Middle French oyseau, from Old French oisel c. 1100, from Late Latin aucellus m (“little bird”), a diminutive ultimately based on Latin avis f (“bird”), from Proto-Italic *awis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis. Compare Norman ouaîsé, Franco-Provençal usél. Compare also the French oie (“goose”), derived from another diminutive of avis.
aile: à chaque oiseau son nid est beau, à l'oiseau royal, à vol d’oiseau, avoir un appétit d’oiseau, battu de l’oiseau, bec d’oiseau, cervelle d’oiseau, comme un oiseau tombé du nid, drôle d’oiseau, en bec d’oiseau
köken: Recorded in Astrakhan and among Greben Cossacks. Discernably, a transferred meaning of Kalmyk лох (lox, “aloe vera”), which relates through the Kalmyk home in Dzungaria to Chinese 蘆薈／芦荟 (lúhuì, “aloe vera”), see it for more.
köken: From Proto-Common Turkic *kuš (“bird”), from Proto-Turkic *kuĺ (“bird”). Cognate with Tatar кош (qoş), Kazakh құс (qūs), Kyrgyz куш (kuş), Khakas хус (xus), Karachay-Balkar къуш (quş), Uzbek qush, Azerbaijani quş, Turkish kuş, Turkmen guş (“bird”), etc.
köken: From Middle Dutch vōgel, from Old Dutch fogal, vogal, from Proto-West Germanic *fugl, from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz. Cognate with German Vogel, English fowl, Icelandic fugl.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese ave (“bird”), from Latin avis (“bird”), from Proto-Italic *awis (“bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis (“bird”).
köken: From an unattested earlier *κουρόγιδο (*kourógido), itself from κουρεύω (kourévo, “to cut hair”) + γίδι (gídi, “young goat”), probably in reference to Byzantine soldiers who were shaved with a goat's shears. An alternative theory takes *κουρόγιδο (*kourógido) as a borrowing from Latin corrideo (“to laugh together or aloud”).
köken: From Old Swedish fughl, foghl, from Old Norse fogl, from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz. Cognate with English fowl and German Vogel. In the mid 19th century, the spelling fogel was common, but SAOL 6 (1889) lists the spelling as fågel only.
– Det börjar brännas. – Fågel, fisk eller mittemellan?
köken: Etymology tree Yiddish פֿרײַער (frayer)bor. Polish frajer Borrowed from Yiddish פֿרײַער (frayer). Doublet of frajérz. Compare Romanian fraier and Russian фра́ер (frájer).
köken: Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit *𑀘𑀺𑀟𑀺𑀕𑀸 (*ciḍigā), a feminine form from 𑀘𑀺𑀟𑀺𑀕 (ciḍiga), from Sanskrit *चिटिक (*ciṭika), चटक (caṭaka, “sparrow”). Cognate with Bengali চড়ুই (coṛui), Assamese চৰাই (sorai).
bird (animal in the class Aves, having a beaked mouth and usually capable of flight) · poultry (meat of domesticated fowl used for nutrition)
çekim: çoğul linnut · tamlayan linnun
köken: From Proto-Finnic *lintu, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *lunta or *linta, a cognate of Estonian lind, Ter Sami lonnˈt, Northern Mansi лунт (lunt) and Hungarian lúd.
No generally accepted origin. Derivation as an old compound *muntVrV ← *muna-tojV-rV, 'egg-laying one' (compare mony (“egg”) and tojik (“to lay eggs”)), has been proposed.