Etymology

waldrapp

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Today it means: An endangered species of ibis, the northern bald ibis, Geronticus eremita. Full definition →

German Waldrapp ← Alemannic German Rapp
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  1. Alemannic German · derived fromRapp“raven”
  2. German · derived fromWald“forest”
  3. German · borrowed fromWaldrapp
  4. English todaywaldrapp

From German Waldrapp, from German Wald (“forest”) + Alemannic German Rapp (“raven”), the latter cognate with German Rabe, English raven.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.