merle
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English merle, from Old French merle (French merle), from Latin merula (“blackbird”) (whence the directly borrowed Middle English merule, and compare the taxonomic name Turdus merula), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂mes- (“black, blackbird”). Compare Breton moualch (“ouzel”), Welsh mwyalch (“blackbird, thrush”). Distantly related to the synonymous ouzel.
Noun
[edit]merle (plural merles)
- The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula.
- Any blackbird.
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Etymology 2
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Noun
[edit]merle (countable and uncountable, plural merles)
- A type of mottled coloration on dogs.
- A dog having this coloration.
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin merula, the word for the male blackbird being mostly female until the 16th century.[1] Probable influence of the Late Latin masculine form merulus (compare Italian merlo, Spanish mirlo).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]merle m (plural merles, feminine merlesse or merlette)
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “merle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
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[edit]Noun
[edit]merle f
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]merle
- Alternative form of marle
- English 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)l
- Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)l/1 syllable
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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- en:Thrushes
- French terms inherited from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms inherited from Late Latin
- French terms derived from Late Latin
- French 1-syllable words
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- French masculine nouns
- fr:Thrushes
- Italian 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Italian/ɛrle
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛrle/2 syllables
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