heron

Senso (Inglese)

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

Concetti

airone

gazza

cicogna

fenicottero

🦩

sinonimi

egret

crane

stork

hern

flamingo

🦩

curlew

loon

pied

sooty tern

greater frigatebird

ardea

Nycticorax nycticorax

white crane

grey

grey heron

hawk

herons

jabiru

Traduzioni

héron

garza

Reiher

reiger

garça

agró

ardea

ερωδιός

τσικνιάς

balıkçıl

Ardea spp.

bernat

airão

αρδέα

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈhɛɹən/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: heron

Affine svedese: häger

Affine inglese antico: hrāgra

Affine olandese: reiger

Affine tedesco: Reiher

Affine gallese: crëyr

Affine greco antico: 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.