sparrowhawk

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

1. A Eurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, a small, short-winged European hawk that preys on smaller birds.
2. A Eurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, a small, short-winged European hawk that preys on smaller birds.
3. Any of numerous other relatively small birds of Old World species of Accipiter, that prey on smaller birds or otherwise resemble A. nisus.
4. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of sparrow hawk; American kestrel, Falco sparverius, of similar size and habit.

Έννοιες

ξεφτέρι

Συνώνυμα

sparrow hawk

Eurasian sparrowhawk

hawk

sparrow-hawk

spar-hawk

Μεταφράσεις

épervier

Sperber

Accipiter nisus

sparviero

sperwer

gavilán

esparver

épervier d’Europe

esparvièr

émouchet

bayağı atmaca

accipiter

valk

epervier

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Κληρονομήθηκε από Μέσα Αγγλικά: sparhauk

Κληρονομήθηκε από Παλαιά Αγγλικά: spearhafoc

Συγγενές με Δανικά: spurvehøg

Συγγενές με Σουηδικά: sparvhök

Συγγενές με Ισλανδικά: sparrhaukur

In summary

From Middle English sparhauk, sperhauk, from Old English spearhafoc, spearhabuc (“sparrow-hawk”), from Proto-West Germanic *sparwahabuk, from Proto-Germanic *sparwahabukaz, equivalent to sparrow + hawk. Cognate with Danish spurvehøg (“sparrowhawk”), Swedish sparvhök (“sparrowhawk”), Icelandic sparrhaukur (“sparrowhawk”).