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MerleEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text

Borrowed from French Merle.

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MerleEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text

English 19th-century bird name from merle (“blackbird”), possibly also a variant of Muriel, Merrill, etc.

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merleEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text

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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