The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*spḗr“sparrow”
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*sparwaz
- Old Norse · derived fromsparr
- Middle English · inherited from*spar
- English todaysparr
Likely from Middle English *spar, from Old Norse sparr, spǫrr (“sparrow”), from Proto-Germanic *sparwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *spḗr (“sparrow”). Doublet of sparrow.
Words from the same roots
Proto-Indo-European*spḗr all →
sparrow
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.