musari

Old High German

Etymology

mūs (“mouse”) +‎ aro (“eagle”) (species of Buteo often prey on small mammals)

Noun

mūsāri m

1. buzzard (hawk in genus Buteo)

Descendants

• Middle High German: mūsar
  • German: Mausar

References

• "mūsāri" in Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch (6th edition 2014)
• Viktor Hugo Suolahti (1909) “Mäusebussard”, in Die deutschen Vogelnamen : eine wortgeschichtliche Untersuchung‎^[1] (in German), page 352