Sperling

Concepts

sparrow

bird

🐦

sparrows

swallow

penis

house sparrow

small person

spuggy

house-sparrow

little bird

Synonyms

Spatz

Haussperling

Schwalbe

Vogel

🐦

Ammer

kleiner Vogel

Heckenbraunelle

Penis

Translations

moineau

gorrión

passero

pardal

mus

pardal

serçe

passer

σπουργίτης

passereau

passerat

huismus

Passer

piaf

Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

spatz

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʃpɛʁlɪŋ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German: sperlinc

Inherited from Old High German: speriling

Cognate with Dutch: mus

In summary

From Middle High German sperlinc, from Old High German sperili(n)g, derived from sparo.
Within High German, Sperling was north-eastern versus southern and western Spatz (western also Müsche, cf. Dutch mus, which was not standardised and has now been replaced with Spatz). Sperling was reinforced by Middle Low German sperlinc.