LL-L "Etymology" 2011.06.01 (05) [EN]

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From: Sandy Fleming fleemin at live.co.uk

Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2011.06.01 (03) [EN-FY]

> From: Henno Brandsma hennobrandsma at hetnet.nl
> Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2011.05.31 (05) [EN]

From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Etymology

Latin: Trochilidae
English: hummingbird
German: Kolibri
Low Saxon (DE): Kolibri (?)
Low Saxon (NL): kolibrie (?)
Dutch: kolibrie
Danish: kolibri
Norwegian: kolibri
Swedish: kolibri
Icelandic: kólibrí

What about Frisian and Scots?

> Ik kin allinnich mar "kolibry" (ik haw it ek neisocht en it WFT is stimt
mei).

The Scots language dictionaries turn up nothing for "hummingbird" so I would
suppose the English borrowing we've always used must be it, with the
necessary change to the participial ending of course: "humminbird".

Sandy Fleming
http://scotstext.org

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