The story
- Dutch · derived fromaasvogel
- Afrikaans · borrowed fromaasvogel“vulture”
- English todayaasvogel
Borrowed from Afrikaans aasvogel (“vulture”) (obsolete form of aasvoël), from Dutch aasvogel, from aas (“carrion”) + vogel (“bird”).
First known use, by meaning
- First attested in the mid 19ᵗʰ century. Vulture.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.