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单词 starnel
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starneln.

Brit. /ˈstɑːn(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈstɑrn(ə)l/
Forms: 1700s– starnel, 1800s stahnil, 1800s starenil, 1800s starnell, 1800s staynil, 1800s– starnil.
Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: starling n.1
Etymology: Apparently a variant of starling n.1, with metathesis (compare forms such as starlin at that entry), perhaps influenced by -el suffix1. Compare earlier starle n. and stare n.1 Compare earlier ship-starnel n.Probably not directly < Old English stearn kind of seabird (see stern n.1 and compare stare n.1).
English regional (northern and midlands).
The common starling, Sturnus vulgaris.Recorded earliest in ship-starnel n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Sturnidae > genus Sturnus > sturnus vulgaris (starling)
stareeOE
starlingOE
starle?1533
shepstare1563
ship-starnel1622
starnel1709
1709 Bedale Churchwardens' Accts. (N. Yorks. County Rec. Office, PR/BED 2/2) Pd. for killing Starnels..8d.
a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) Starnel, a starling. North.
1848 Zoologist 6 2137 The starling in this dialect is a ‘starenil’ or ‘staynil’.
a1864 J. Clare Later Poems (1984) I. 103 There flocks of starnels too repair When morning oer the valley springs.
1888 G. M. Fenn Dick o' the Fens x. 158 Look at the starnels sattling down on the reeds!
1907 C. R. Haines Notes Birds Rutland 65 (heading) Starling, Sturnus vulgaris. (Starnel, sturnel, shepster.)
1923 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 291 They was all agreed aboot repairing spoot ower sooth door (starnils had made strange bad work wi' building their nests).
1977 R. Scollins & J. Titford Ey up, mi Duck! II. 46 Starnel, starling.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 291/1 Starnel, starnil, starling.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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