starling

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈstɑːlɪŋ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [ˈstɑːlɪŋ]
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• General-American: /ˈstɑɹlɪŋ/
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• General-American: [ˈstɑɹlɪŋ]
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• rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)lɪŋ
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ster- Proto-Indo-European *ster-os Proto-Germanic *staraz Proto-West Germanic *star Old English stær Proto-Indo-European *-lósder. Proto-Germanic *-ilaz Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kwo-der.? Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Germanic *-īnaz Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz ? Proto-Germanic *-ingaz Proto-Germanic *-ilingaz Proto-West Germanic *-ling Old English -ling Old English stærling Middle English starling English starling From Middle English starling, sterling, sterlinge, from Old English stærling, from stær (“starling”) + -ling (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch sterlinck (“starling”).

Apparently a variant of staddling (although difficult to account for), or perhaps an alteration by association with another (unidentified) word.

107 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: spreeu — bird
• Albanian: shturë — bird
• Albanian: gargull — bird
• Arabic: زُرْزُور (zurzūr) — bird
• Arabic: زرزور (zarzūr) — bird
• Armenian: սարյակ (saryak) — bird
• Asturian: estornín — bird
• Bashkir: сыйырсыҡ (sıyırsıq) — bird
• Basque: arabazozo — bird
• Belarusian: шпак (špak) — bird
• Bengali: শালিক (śalik) — bird
• Breton: tred — bird
• Bulgarian: скоре́ц (skoréc) — bird
• Catalan: estornell — bird
• Chechen: алкханч (alqanč) — bird
• Chinese Mandarin: 椋鳥 /椋鸟 (liángniǎo) — bird
• Cornish: troos — bird
• Crimean Tatar: sıyırcıq — bird
• Czech: špaček — bird
• Danish: stær — bird
• Dutch: spreeuw — bird
• Esperanto: sturno — bird
• Estonian: kuldnokk — bird
• Estonian: künnirästas — bird
• Faroese: stari — bird
• Finnish: kottarainen — bird
• French: étourneau — bird
• West-Frisian: protter — bird
• Friulian: sturnel — bird
• Galician: estorniño — bird
• Georgian: შოშია (šošia) — bird
• German: Star — bird
• Greek: ψαρόνι (psaróni) — bird
• Ancient Greek: ψάρ (psár) — bird
• Hebrew: זַרְזִיר (zarzír) — bird
• Hungarian: seregély — bird
• Icelandic: stari — bird
• Indonesian: jalak — bird
• Irish: druid — bird
• Italian: storno — bird
• Japanese: 椋鳥 (mukudori) — bird
• Javanese: jalak — bird
• Northern Kurdish: alik — bird
• Northern Kurdish: reşêlek — bird
• Northern Kurdish: zerzûr — bird
• Ladin: storno — bird
• Latin: sturnus — bird
• Latvian: mājas strazds — bird
• Lithuanian: varnėnas — bird
• Low German: Spree — bird
• Luxembourgish: Spréif — bird
• Macedonian: сколовра́нец (skolovránec) — bird
• Maltese: sturnell — bird
• Māori: tāringi — bird
• Norman: étourné — bird
• Norman: êtourné — bird
• Norwegian Bokmål: stær — bird
• Norwegian Nynorsk: stare — bird
• Norwegian Nynorsk: star — bird
• Occitan: estornèl — bird
• Old English: stær — bird
• Ossetian: сауцъиу (sawc’iw) — bird
• Persian: سار (sâr) — bird
• Persian: ساری (sâri) — bird
• Polish: szpak — bird
• Portuguese: estorninho — bird
• Romanian: graur — bird
• Romansh: sturnel — bird
• Russian: скворе́ц (skvoréc) — bird
• Inari-Sami: kottarâš — bird
• Lule-Sami: sterra — bird
• Northern Sami: stárra — bird
• Sardinian: istùrulu campinu — bird
• Sardinian: sturru grandinau — bird
• Scottish Gaelic: druid — bird
• Serbo-Croatian: чво́рак — bird
• Serbo-Croatian: čvórak — bird
• Slovak: škorec — bird
• Slovene: škorec — bird
• Lower Sorbian: škórc — bird
• Upper Sorbian: škórc — bird
• Southern Altai: сыгырчык (sïgïrčïk) — bird
• Spanish: estornino — bird
• Swedish: stare — bird
• Tagalog: martines — bird
• Talysh: шор — bird
• Turkish: sığırcık — bird
• Ottoman Turkish: صیغیرجق (sığırcık) — bird
• Ottoman Turkish: سار (sar) — bird
• Ottoman Turkish: زرزور (zurzur) — bird
• Ottoman Turkish: چكركه قوشی (çekirge kuşu) — bird
• Turkmen: sar — bird
• Ukrainian: шпак (špak) — bird
• Venetan: strioło — bird
• Volapük: sturnod — bird
• Welsh: drudwen — bird
• Finnish: suojapaalutus — pilings
• French: bec — pilings
• German: Eisbrecher — pilings
• Italian: palificazione — pilings
• Italian: palafitta — pilings
• Polish: izbica — pilings
• Polish: lodołam — pilings
• Russian: водоре́з (vodoréz) — pilings
• Russian: волноре́з (volnoréz) — pilings
• Russian: ледоре́з (ledoréz) — pilings
• Swedish: isbrytare — pilings