Etymology

yelamber

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Today it means: A yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella). Full definition →

Middle English *yelwambre ← Old English amore
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromamore
  2. Middle English · inherited from*yelwambre
  3. English todayyelamber

From Middle English *yelwambre, from yelwe (“yellow”) + *ambre (“yellowhammer”), from Old English amore.

Words from the same roots

Middle English*yelwambre all →

yellowhammer

Old Englishamore all →

yellowhammerammer

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.