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heron

noun
/ˈhɛɹən/

Etymology

From Middle English heron, heroun, heiron, from Anglo-Norman heiron, from Medieval Latin hairō, from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *hraigrō, from Proto-Germanic *haigrô (compare Swedish häger and Danish hejre), dissimilation of *hraigrô (compare Old English hrāgra, Dutch reiger, German Reiher), from imitative Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreik-, *(s)kreig- (“to screech, creak”) (compare Welsh crëyr (“heron”), Ancient Greek κρίζω (krízō, “to creak, screech”). Compare also egret from the same Germanic etymon.

  1. derived from *(s)kreik-✻
  2. derived from *haigrô✻
  3. derived from *hraigrō✻
  4. derived from hairō
  5. derived from heiron
  6. inherited from heron

Definitions

  1. Any long-legged, long-necked wading bird of the family Ardeidae.

  2. A surname.

  3. A census-designated place in Sanders County, Montana, United States.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for heron. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA