merle n.

the common European blackbird, late 15c., from Old French merle (12c.), from Latin merulus, from PIE *ams- "black, blackbird" (source also of Old English osle "blackbird;" see ouzel). Middle English had the word earlier as merule (late 14c.), directly from Latin. "Perhaps never in popular use, but constantly occurring in Scottish poetry from the 15th c." [OED]. The Latin word shows effects of rhotacism. It also is the source of Provençal and Spanish merla, Portuguese melro, and Italian merla. Borrowed from French are Middle Dutch and dialectal German merle, Dutch meerle.

词汇	merle
词源	merle n. the common European blackbird, late 15c., from Old French merle (12c.), from Latin merulus, from PIE ams- "black, blackbird" (source also of Old English osle "blackbird;" see ouzel). Middle English had the word earlier as merule (late 14c.), directly from Latin. "Perhaps never in popular use, but constantly occurring in Scottish poetry from the 15th c." [OED]. The Latin word shows effects of rhotacism. It also is the source of Provençal and Spanish merla, Portuguese melro, and Italian merla. Borrowed from French are Middle Dutch and dialectal German merle, Dutch meerle. Entries linking to merle* ouzel n. also ousel, an old name for the blackbird, from Old English osle "blackbird," from West Germanic amslon- (source also of Old High German amsala, German amsel), probably from PIE ams- "black, blackbird" (source also of Latin merula "blackbird," Welsh mwyalch "blackbird, thrush," Breton moualch "ouzel"). updated on December 29, 2018
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merle n.

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