Etymograph

English

silverbird

From silver + bird.

A compound of silver + bird

Proto-Germanic *silubrą ‘silver’

Proto-West Germanic *silubr ‘silver’

Old English seolfor ‘silver’

Middle English silver ‘silver’

English silver

Old English bridd ‘chick’

Middle English bird

English bird

Today it means

noun A bird of the species Empidornis semipartitus, native to eastern Africa.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “silverbird”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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