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Perhaps related to Old English hwilpa, Scots whaup and Dutch wulp (“curlew”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Perhaps related to Old English hwilpa, Scots whaup and Dutch wulp (“curlew”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.