musari
Old High German
Etymology
mūs (“mouse”) + aro (“eagle”) (species of Buteo often prey on small mammals)
Noun
mūsāri m
- 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, page 352