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A male chaffinch
From Middle English chaffynch, chaffynche, caffynche, equivalent to chaff + finch;[1] however, more recently the first element has been argued to derive from the same root as Old English cæfed (“ornamented”) and cæfing (“hair-ornament”), thus meaning "ornamented finch, colourful finch".[2]
chaffinch (plural chaffinches)
- A small passerine bird, Fringilla coelebs, of the finch family, found throughout Europe and eastward to Iran and eastern Mediterranean coastlands.
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- Albanian: borës (sq) m, avdosë f, borak (sq) m, zborak (sq) m, fink m
- Armenian: ամուրիկ (amurik)
- Asturian: pimpín (ast), gurrión pintu (ast)
- Breton: pint m, pint kabell louet m
- Bulgarian: сипка f (sipka)
- Catalan: pinsà (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 蒼頭燕雀 / 苍头燕雀 (cāngtóu yànquè)
- Czech: pěnkava (cs) f
- Danish: bogfinke (da)
- Dutch: vink (nl), boekvink (nl)
- Esperanto: fringo
- Faroese: bókígða f
- Finnish: peippo (fi)
- French: pinson (fr) m, pinson des arbres (fr) m
- Galician: pimpín (gl) m
- Georgian: ნიბლია (niblia), სკვინჩა (sḳvinča), ნარჩიტა (narčiṭa)
- German: Buchfink (de) m
- Greek:
- Ancient: σπίζα f (spíza), σπίνος m (spínos)
- Hungarian: erdei pinty (hu)
- Icelandic: bókfinka (is) f
- Irish: rí rua m
- Italian: fringuello (it)
- Japanese: 頭青花鶏 (zuao atori)
- Korean: 푸른머리되새 (ko) (pureunmeoridoesae)
- Latgalian: žubeite f
- Latvian: žubīte f
- Lithuanian: kikilis (lt) m
- Luxembourgish: Poufank (lb) m
- Macedonian: сне́гар m (snégar), си́пка f (sípka)
- Maori: pahirini
- Norman: rossîngno m
- Northern Sami: beibboš
- Norwegian: bokfink (no)
- Occitan: pinçard (oc) m, pinçan m, pinçon (oc) m, quinçon (oc) m
- Polish: zięba (pl) f
- Portuguese: tentilhão (pt) m, chupim (pt) m
- Romanian: cinteză (ro) f
- Russian: зя́блик (ru) m (zjáblik)
- Scottish Gaelic: breacan-beithe m
- Serbo-Croatian: zeba (sh) f
- Slovak: pinka f
- Spanish: pinzón vulgar m
- Swedish: bofink (sv)
- Turkish: ispinoz (tr)
- Ukrainian: зя́блик (uk) m (zjáblyk)
- Welsh: asgell fraith f
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- ^ "chaffinch, n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2022, www.oed.com/view/Entry/30176. Accessed 1 September 2022.
- ^ Carole Hough, 'Cheveley and Chaff Hall: A Reconsideration of OE ceaf in Place-Names', Nottingham Medieval Studies, 43 (1999), 21–32; DOI: 10.1484/j.nms.3.291.
