trozdos- : tr̥zdos-

    trozdos- : tr̥zdos-

    English meaning: blackbird

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Drossel”

    Note: compare above S. 1079

    Material: Lat. turdus, -ī m. “thrush, Krammetsvogel; ein fish” (*tr̥zdos, with dial. u?); M.Ir. truit, druit f., Ir. truid, druid ‘star” (*trozdi-); from dem Ir. borrowed M.Welsh trydw, drydw (after drud “toll” transfigured to drudw), Bret. dred, tred (older pl.), O.Corn. troet m., nCorn. tros, pl. tryjy, treyju, Singulativ f. M.Corn. troʒan; besides O.Bret. tra[s]cl, Bret. drask(l) m., Vannes also taraskl, f. Welsh tresglen “thrush”; O.Ice. Þrǫ str (*Þrastu-z, compare to u-stem Welsh trydw) “thrush”, Nor. trost, trast; unclear M.H.G. drostel, O.E. drostle (Gmc. *Þrustalō-), O.H.G. drosca-(la), M.H.G. bO.Ir. dróschel, schwäb.-Alem. drostlǝ (Gmc. *Þrau(d)-sk-, -st-), O.E. ðrysce (*Þruskjōn, Eng. thrush; M.L.G. drōsle, and. thrōsla (reshaped from *throstla after *ōsla = O.E.ōsle, Ger. “blackbird”); Proto-Gmc. -au- and -uperhaps through influence an onomatopoeic words Schallsippe with u, as in Gk. τρύζω “girre”, τρῡγών “turtledove”, Pol. trukać ds., etc.; balto-Slav. *trazda- m. “thrush” in O.Pruss. tresde f., Lith. strãzdas, Ltv. strãzds m.; Slav. *drozdъ in Russ. drozd (gen. drozdá) etc.

    References: WP. I 761 f., WH. II 718, Trautmann 327, Specht IE Decl. 49.