wagtail

wagtail

English

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Etymology

From a partial suppletion of Middle English wagstert (literally “wag-tail”), equivalent to wag +‎ tail.

Pronunciation

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Noun

wagtail (plural wagtails)

1. Any of various small passerine birds of the family Motacillidae, of the Old World, notable for their long tails.
2. (zoology) Short for wagtail platy.

Hyponyms

• cape wagtail
• citrine wagtail
• field wagtail
• garden wagtail
• grey wagtail
• mountain wagtail
• pied wagtail
• wagtail flycatcher
• water wagtail
• white wagtail
• wood wagtail
• yellow wagtail

 

Translations

various small passerine birds

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Aromanian: coadã-baturã f, cudubaturã f, cutrubatã f Asturian: llavandera f Basque: buztanikara Belarusian: сітаўка f (sitaŭka), пліска f (pliska) Bulgarian: стърчиопашка f (stǎrčiopaška) Catalan: cuereta (ca) f Chechen: хӏуьрцӏалдиг (hürcʼaldig) Chichewa: nthowitowi Chinese: Mandarin: 鶺鴒／鹡鸰 (zh) (jílíng), 雝渠／雍渠 (zh) (yōngqú) Czech: konipas (cs) Danish: vipstjert (da) c Esperanto: motacilo Faroese: erla f Finnish: västäräkki (fi) French: hochequeue (fr) m, bergeronnette (fr) f Georgian: ბოლოქანქარა (bolokankara) German: Stelze (de) f Greek: σουσουράδα (el) f (sousouráda) Hebrew: נַחְלִיאֵלִי‎ (he) m (naẖliéli) Hungarian: billegető (hu) Ido: motacilo (io) Irish: glasóg f Italian: cutrettola (it) f, batticoda (it) f, ballerina (it) f Japanese: 鶺鴒 (ja) (セキレイ, sekirei) Korean: 할미새 (halmisae), 아리새 (arisae) Latgalian: cīlova Latin: motacilla f Latvian: cielava f Lithuanian: kielė m Malagasy: triotrio (mg) Mari: Eastern Mari: вырляҥге (vyrlâṅge), чывызык (čyvyzyk) Norman: craûlant-coue m, craûlant-tchu m, glianneux m, gliaineux m, labouotheux m, lavandgiéthe f Ottoman Turkish: یوند قوشی‎ (yund kuşu) Persian: دم‌جنبانک‎ (dom-jombânak) Polish: pliszka (pl) f Portuguese: alvéola (pt) f, alvéloa (pt), lavandisca (pt) f, lavandeira (pt) f Romanian: codobatură (ro) f, prundaș (ro) m Russian: трясогу́зка (ru) f (trjasogúzka) Serbo-Croatian: pliska (sh) f Sorbian: Upper Sorbian: pliška f, spliška f Spanish: lavandera (es) f Swedish: ärla (sv) c Ukrainian: пли́ска f (plýska) Vietnamese: chìa vôi Welsh: siglen f, tingsigl m or f Westrobothnian: el f Wolof: coblet

See also

• oriole