kestrel

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From Middle English castrel (“staniel, bird of prey”), from Middle French cresserelle, crecerelle (“bird of prey”), usually assumed to be from crecelle (“rattle, wooden reel”) (modern crécelle), of obscure origin. Cognates possibly include: Medieval Latin clisterella f, French crécerelle f and cristel m, Neapolitan castariello m and crestariello m, all sharing the same meaning. Derivation from the assumed Vulgar Latin *crepicella, *crepitacillum, a diminutive of crepitāculum, from crepitāre (“to crackle”) is difficult to explain from a morphological point of view. Instead, possibly from a root *krek-, *krak- (“to crack, rattle, creak, emit a bird cry”), from Middle Dutch crāken (“to creak, crack”), from Old Dutch *krakōn (“to crack, creak, emit a cry”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn (“to emit a cry, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerg- (“to shout”). Cognate with Old High German krahhōn (“to make a sound, crash”), Old English cracian (“to resound”), French craquer (“to emit a repeated cry, used of birds”). More at creak, crack.

65 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: valk — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Armenian: հողմավար (hoġmavar) — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Breton: falc'hun — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Bulgarian: сокол (sokol) — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Catalan: falcó — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Czech: poštolka — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Danish: falk — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Dutch: valk — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Esperanto: falko — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Faroese: falkur — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Faroese: smyril — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Finnish: jalohaukka — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Finnish: haukka — any small falcon of genus Falco
• French: crécerelle — any small falcon of genus Falco
• French: cristel — any small falcon of genus Falco
• West-Frisian: falk — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Friulian: falcon — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Galician: falcón — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Galician: tartaraña — any small falcon of genus Falco
• German: Falke — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Greek: κιρκινέζι (kirkinézi) — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Ancient Greek: κέρχνη (kérkhnē) — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Hungarian: vércse — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Icelandic: fálki — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Icelandic: haukur — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Icelandic: valur — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Ido: falkono — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Irish: pocaire gaoithe — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Italian: falco — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Italian: falcone — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Italian: falchetto — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Kashmiri: بٕہٕر (bụhụr) — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Kashmiri: بٕۂر (bụhạr) — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Central Kurdish: شاھین (shAheen) — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Ladin: falcon — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Latin: falco — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Low German: Falk — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Luxembourgish: Kréchel — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Macedonian: сокол (sokol) — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Mudburra: dirdila — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Neapolitan: castariello — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Neapolitan: crestariello — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Norwegian: falk — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Norwegian: hauk — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Polish: sokół — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Portuguese: falcão — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Romani: falkono — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Romansh: creivel — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Romansh: falcun — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Russian: пустельга́ (pustelʹgá) — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Scottish Gaelic: speireag ruadh — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Serbo-Croatian: соко — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Serbo-Croatian: сокол — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Serbo-Croatian: soko — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Serbo-Croatian: sokol — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Slovak: sokol — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Slovene: sokol — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Lower Sorbian: sokoł — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Upper Sorbian: sokoł — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Spanish: cernícalo — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Swedish: falk — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Turkish: kerkenez — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Ukrainian: сокіл (sokil) — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Ukrainian: сапсан (sapsan) — any small falcon of genus Falco
• Welsh: cudyll — any small falcon of genus Falco