sparrow

Betekenis (Engels)

1. The house sparrow, Passer domesticus; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers.
2. A member of the family Passeridae, comprising small Old World songbirds.
3. A member of the family Passerellidae (or Emberizidae, under classification systems that subsume the New World sparrows under Emberizidae), comprising small New World songbirds.
4. Generically, any small, nondescript bird.
5. (London, UK) A quick-witted, lively person.

Sinonieme

bird

🐦

dunnock

true sparrow

hedge sparrow

bunting

house sparrow

swallow

Prunella modularis

Passer

small person

genus Passer

English sparrow

mossie

common sparrow

accentor

spuggy

canary

finch

house-sparrow

little bird

nuthatch

penis

wild goose

Vertalings

moineau

gorrión

Sperling

passero

Spatz

mus

pardal

pardal

serçe

σπουργίτης

passer

Passer

passerat

passereau

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈspæɹəʊ/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: sparwe

Geërf van Old English: spearwa

Verwante met Nederlands: spreeuw

Verwante met Switserse Duits: Spar

Verwante met Duits: Sperling

Verwante met Deens: -

Verwante met Boeknoors: spurv

Verwante met Nuwe Noors: sporv

Verwante met Sweeds: sparv

Verwante met Bretons: frao

Verwante met Tokharian A: spārāñ

Verwante met Antieke Grieks: ψάρ

In summary

From Middle English sparwe, sparowe, from Old English spearwa, from Proto-West Germanic *sparwō, from Proto-Germanic *sparwô, from Proto-Indo-European *spḗr (“sparrow”).
Cognate with Dutch spreeuw (“starling”), Alemannic German Spar (“sparrow”), German Sperling (“sparrow”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål spurv (“sparrow”), Norwegian Nynorsk sporv (“sparrow”), Swedish sparv (“sparrow”), Breton frao (“crow”), Tocharian A ṣpārāñ, Ancient Greek ψάρ (psár, “starling”).