Etymology

birdling

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Today it means: A little bird; especially, a baby bird. Full definition →

Middle English *byrdlyng ← Old English byrdling ← Proto-West Germanic *burdiling
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birdling · noun1

From bird + -ling.

birdling · noun2

  1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*burdiling
  2. Old English · inherited frombyrdling“tortoise”
  3. Middle English · inherited from*byrdlyng
  4. English todaybirdling

From Middle English *byrdlyng, from Old English byrdling (“tortoise”), from Proto-West Germanic *burdiling. By surface analysis, board + -ling.

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