English
streamertail
From streamer + tail.
Proto-Indo-European *srew- ‘to flow’
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Proto-West Germanic *straum ‘stream’
Old English strēam
Middle English strem ‘stream’
Middle English stremere ‘a flag used to identify one's loyalty’
English streamer
Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- ‘to tear, fray, shred’
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Proto-Germanic *taglą ‘hair, fiber’
Proto-West Germanic *tagl
Old English tæġel
Middle English tail
English tail
Today it means
noun Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Trochilus, endemic to Jamaica, with greatly elongated rectrices in the males.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “streamertail”. 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.
Etymograph / streamertail