darr
English
Etymology
Possibly from dorrhawk (“the nightjar”), from its similar diet and appearance in flight.
Noun
darr (plural darrs)
- (Britain, dialectal, Norfolk) A bird, the European black tern.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for darr in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Old Norse
Alternative forms
- darraður
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *darōþuz (“light spear, javelin, dart”).
Noun
darr n
- spear, dart
Descendants
- Icelandic: darraður, darr, dör
- Swedish: dart
- → Middle English: dar
References
- darr in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press