reiger
Dutch (Brabantic)
/ˈrɛi̯.ɣər/
noun
Definitions
- heron, waterbird of the family Ardeidae
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Dutch reiger inherited from Old Dutch heigero inherited from Frankish *hraigrō inherited from Proto-Germanic *hraigrô (heron).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*hraigrô
Gloss
heron
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- heron English
- heroner English
- heronlike English
- heronry English
- hairō Latin
- purper Dutch, Flemish
- purperreiger Dutch, Flemish
- ral Dutch, Flemish
- ralreiger Dutch, Flemish
- zilver Dutch, Flemish
- zilverreiger Dutch, Flemish
- hegre Norwegian Bokmål
- *hraigrô Proto-Germanic
- heron Middle English
- hegri Old Norse
- heron Old French
- crëyr Welsh
- reiger Middle Dutch
- reier Afrikaans
- *hraigrō gmw-pro
- heigero Old Dutch
- *hrēgar Old Saxon
- *hraigrō Frankish
- *hrāgra Old Frisian
- *hrēgra Old Frisian
- crehyr Middle Welsh