heron

Betekenis (Engels)

Any long-legged, long-necked wading bird of the family Ardeidae.

Sinonieme

egret

crane

stork

hern

flamingo

🦩

curlew

loon

pied

sooty tern

greater frigatebird

ardea

Nycticorax nycticorax

white crane

grey

grey heron

hawk

herons

jabiru

Vertalings

héron

garza

Reiher

reiger

airone

garça

agró

ardea

ερωδιός

balıkçıl

τσικνιάς

Ardea spp.

bernat

airão

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈhɛɹən/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: heron

Verwante met Sweeds: häger

Verwante met Old English: hrāgra

Verwante met Nederlands: reiger

Verwante met Duits: Reiher

Verwante met Wallies: crëyr

Verwante met Antieke Grieks: κρίζω

In summary

From Middle English heron, heroun, heiron, from Anglo-Norman heiron, from Medieval Latin hairō, from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *hraigrō, from Proto-Germanic *haigrô (compare Swedish häger and Danish hejre), dissimilation of *hraigrô (compare Old English hrāgra, Dutch reiger, German Reiher), from imitative Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreik-, *(s)kreig- (“to screech, creak”) (compare Welsh crëyr (“heron”), Ancient Greek κρίζω (krízō, “to creak, screech”). Compare also egret from the same Germanic etymon.