出典:Wiktionary
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2025/08/18 16:32 UTC 版)
From 中期英語 merle, from Old French merle (French merle), from Latin merula (“blackbird”) (whence the directly borrowed 中期英語 merule, and compare the taxonomic name Turdus merula), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂mes- (“black, blackbird”). Compare Breton moualch (“ouzel”), Welsh mwyalch (“blackbird, thrush”). Distantly related to the synonymous ouzel.
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merle (countable and uncountable, plural merles)