Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula. · Any blackbird.
From Middle English merle, from Old French merle (French merle), from Latin merula (“blackbird”) (whence the directly borrowed Middle English merule, and compare the taxonomic name Turdus merula), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂mes- (“black, blackbird”). Compare Breton moualch (“ouzel”), Welsh mwyalch (“blackbird, thrush”). Distantly related to the synonymous ouzel.
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