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heronn. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French heron. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman haron, herone, heroun, herroun, herun, hayrun, heiroun, heyroun, heyrun, Anglo-Norman and Old French heiron, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French hairon, heron (c1150 in Old French; French héron ) < a form in a Germanic language cognate with Old Saxon hēgero , heiro , Old High German heigar , heigaro (Middle High German heiger ), variants (with dissimilation) of Old Saxon reiger (Middle Low German rēger , reigher , reyer ), Old High German reigaro (Middle High German reiger , reier , German Reiher , †Reiger ), cognate with Old English hrāgra , Middle Dutch reigher , rēgher (Dutch reiger ) < a reduplicated form of an Indo-European base imitative of the bird's cry, which is perhaps also seen in raven n.1Related forms. Probably cognate with Old Saxon hēgero , heiro , Old High German heigar , heigaro are Old Icelandic hegri , Old Swedish hägher (Swedish häger ), Old Danish hejre (Danish hejre ). The Germanic word was also borrowed into other Romance languages, as well as into post-classical Latin; compare post-classical Latin hairon- , hairo (11th cent.), Old Occitan aigron , Catalan agró (14th cent.), Spanish airón (a1583; a1500 as †ayrón , denoting the bird's plume used as an ornament), Portuguese airão (16th cent.), Italian airone (end of the 13th cent.; also †aghirone , 1338). Form history. The β. forms reflect the loss of the vowel in the second syllable (after its early reduction to schwa, which resulted from the early shift of stress from the second to the first syllable in English), with in many cases a pronunciation with syllabic n , /ˈhɛrn̩/. The γ. forms show the development of a palatal on-glide. Some Scots forms show the development of an excrescent t. Earlier use in a place name. Attested slightly earlier in Herominche, i.e. ‘Heron Inch’, the name of an island in Linlithgow Loch, West Lothian (1336–7; also le Heroun Ynche (1379)). Possible earlier attestation in a Latin context. It is unclear whether the following earlier quot. is to be taken as showing the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word:1302 in H. T. Riley Chronica Monasterii S. Albani (1873) II. App. 330 [Pro] heyruns et botors..xxii.s. the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ardeidae (herons and bitterns) > genus Ardea (heron) α. 1340 (1866) 193 (MED) Me ret of þe heyrone þet he draȝþ uorþ his uader and his moder huanne hi byeþ ealde. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 489 Thise Fawconers..That with hir hawkes han the heron [v.rr. heyroun, herowne, heroun] slayn. a1475 (Sloane) (1862) 29 Þo heroun is rosted..And eton with gynger as his kynde is. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart I. ccccvi. (R.) They toke their horses..and went into the feldes and founde plentie of heerons to flye at. 1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Pref. sig. bijv Isopes frogges to whom..Iupiter sent a hearon to picke them in the hedes. 1635 J. Reynolds (new ed.) vi. xxx. 439 The heron stretcheth her pinnions, and packs on her feathered sailes so nimbly and proudly, that [etc.]. 1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort 87 A kind of Herons of an admirable whiteness, about the bigness of a Pigeon. 1717 A. Pope tr. Homer III. x. 322 In sign she favour'd their Intent, A long-wing'd Heron great Minerva sent. 1793 W. Wordsworth 285 And heron, as resounds the trodden shore, Shoots upward, darting his long neck before. 1839 W. B. Stonehouse 65 The common heron may still be seen standing motionless, near ditches and pools of water. 1879 IX. 7/2 The line herons take over a tract of country on their way to and from the heronry..is called a ‘passage’. 1926 J. S. Huxley 175 In herons and egrets..pairing-up occurs on the communal feeding-grounds. 1958 19 Nov. 12/6 A heron had alighted on the far bank and I told myself that it was putting the fish down. 2004 Winter 11/2 The heron..with one light knee-bend rises to slow gorgeous flight. 1544 W. Turner sig. Cv A cryel heron or a duuarf heron. a myre dromble. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Scotl. vi. 8/1 in R. Holinshed I A great store of Soland geese (not vnlike to those which Plinie calleth water Egles or as we, sea Herons). 1611 R. Cotgrave Aigrette, a fowle very like a Heron, but White; a criell Heron, or dwarfe Heron. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby 279 The lesser ash-coloured Heron, called by the Germans, the Night-raven. 1753 J. Hanway IV. xv. 127 (note) These are the feathers of black herons stuck into a tube, supported by a stud of precious stones. 1789 A. Phillip 163 White-Fronted Heron... This bird was sent from Port Jackson in New Holland. 1839 W. B. Stonehouse 65 The egret and the night heron are, I believe, entirely extinct. 1845 W. Yarrell (ed. 2) II. 531 The Squacco Heron feeds on small fishes, mollusca, and insects. 1893 A. Newton et al. 418 Large as is the common Heron of Europe, it is exceeded in size by the Great Blue Heron of America, Ardea herodias. 1947 R. Bedichek xix. 252 I have seen a pair of Louisiana herons stand motionless as statuary for extended periods thus embraced. 1963 D. Attenborough 30 Pied herons standing in tightly packed ranks on the shores. 2004 Feb. 34/3 A native yellow-crowned night heron had lived on Bermuda before the English arrived. Compounds C1. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby i. 8 Most Birds have two blind guts or Appendices, as they call them: the Heron-kind have but one. 1723 A. de la Mottraye I. xi. 178 Ushers to the Porte, with a Heron Feather in their Turbants. 1769 J. Wallis I. ix. 318 The claws black, and small; the interior edge of the middle one serrated, as in the heron-species. 1836 29 Oct. 316/1 The reputation of heron-flesh has died away. 1868 Oct. 666/1 A Heron colony is a great comfort to a family of Crows, the eggs and young Herons furnishing a most acceptable diet. 1922 24 174 In one case two rotten heron eggs were found in a heron nest occupied by two very recently hatched pelicans. 1991 Oct. 47/3 Here..is a noisy heron rookery... One snag alone can contain up to twelve heron nests. b. 1695 ix. 156 A hern pie. Break the Breast-bone of the Hern, parboyl it in water and salt, shred sweet herbs with Onyons, and make them up into little Balls, with Butter, put them into the belly, and season it with Pepper, Salt and Nutmeg. 1723 J. Nott sig. Q5v (heading) To make a Hern Pye. 1852 F. Bishop 244 Heron pie. Pick and singe the bird, break the breast bone, and lay the bird in soak for an hour in warm water. 1963 V. Cronin iv. 67 Where else but in Paris would a king raise a restaurateur to the nobility simply because he enjoyed his heron-pies? 1996 B. W. Edginton i. 12 The frog soup, goat flesh and snail cream—not to mention roast little owls and heron pie—was tough cheese to chew after a diet of dry bread and weak tea. 1649 No. 215. 2019 His Highness, in the midst of so great Riches, had on..a Turband on his head, with two Heron-plumes, tyed together by two Emeralds. 1808 W. Scott iv. vii. 192 His cap..was graced With the proud heron-plume. 1929 H. Allen 14 Carbuncled heron plumes for tall panaches. 1998 (Nexis) 25 Sept. 3 One London auction house sold 1,608 packages of heron plumes in a single year. 1785 Apr. 194/2 Heron-billed Ficoides [i.e. a type of plant]. 1819 A. Spenser III. ii. 59 Waving his heron-plumed helmet in the air. 1883 5 Apr. 2/2 The heron-legged, four-button-cut-away coated,..pounded-silver-headed-cane ‘Dude’ of the period. 1932 W. B. Yeats 12 The heron-billed pale Cattle-birds. 1935 C. Day Lewis 21 The heron-feathered sky. 1993 July 6/2 The fisher emerges, heron-headed, a little splay-footed, gawky. 1793 G. Butt I. 37 Yon heron-haunted sallow-wilds. 1884 T. E. Buckley in C. St. John (ed. 2) II. App. 310 Loch Beannoch, with its birch-clad, heron-inhabited islets and shore. 1903 10 Dec. 3/2 It [sc. a mist]..hid all the heron-haunted flats and marshes. 1999 T. A. H. Wilkinson (2005) (caption) viii. 276 The enclosure with a bull may refer to a sacred precinct at Buto, if the heron-topped building next to it represents the Djebaut. 2008 July 34/2 Towering red cedars, heron-filled lagoons. C4. 1808 J. Jamieson Heron-bluter, the snipe... V. Yern-bluter. 1905 A. R. Forbes 333 Snipe.., Earn or ern-bleater or bliter..; harpleat, heatherbleat or bleater, hedder-bluter, hedge-spar, heron-bluter, hoarsgouk, [etc.]. 1851 H. Melville cviii. 525 Tall, heron-built captains. 1817 T. Moore 90 Chiefs of th' Uzbek race, Waving their heron crests with martial grace. 1899 C. R. Haines xvii. 148 Old silver salver dated by hall mark 1757–58, with the 3 crescents and the heron crest. 1911 1 Sept. 5/6 Some states have forbidden the sale or purchase of the heron crest and it is amazing that imitations have immediately taken the place of these feathers. 2001 (Nexis) 7 Dec. A great Storr silver-gilt basket, a sideboard display piece, and a solid gold coffee pot..are the finest objects bearing the heron crest on display. 1614 T. R. in T. Overbury et al. Country Newes sig. Gv That a Courtier neuer attaines his selfe-knowledge but by report. That his best embleme is a hearne dogge. 1686 R. Blome ii. xvii. 43/1 (heading) Hern hawking. 1709 No. 4539/1 Their Majesties came to this Place, to see the Diversion of Hern-hawking. 1766 T. Pennant ii. 116 Heron-hawking being so favorite a diversion of our ancestors. 1898 14 May 553/1 Heron-hawking, once so highly esteemed, is practically at an end in this country. 2009 R. Dickinson ii. 22 All the good hawking country was now divided into a series of estates that were ringed by sturdy stone walls. This all but put an end to the gentlemanly sport of heron hawking. Derivatives 1611 R. Cotgrave Haironnier, of or belonging to, a heron; also, heron-like. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais i. 15 In spight of Ate and her Hern-like thigh. 1796 ‘M. Fitz John’ III. xv. 197 The heron-like Miss Assington. 1895 Apr. 772 These heronlike falcons are distributed over the greater part of Africa. 1992 I. Banks xiv. 344 The heron-like lawyer seemed sad that the will was litigation-proof. 2002 G. M. Eberhart I. 44/2 Bennu Bird , The sacred bird of Egypt that escorted souls to heaven...Giant, heronlike bird. Taller than a man. 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