Noun: starling
| Singular | starling |
| Plural | starlings |
Sample Sentences
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Vast flights of starlings, fleeing the racket, beat across the sky at high speed, like Squall-clouds,— Evening at Noon-tide. [1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 52, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part Two: America, page 501:]
Nouns inflected like starling
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ster-
3. Proto-Indo-European *ster-os
4. Proto-Germanic *staraz
5. Proto-West Germanic *star
6. Old English stær
7. Proto-Indo-European *-lósder.
8. Proto-Germanic *-ilaz
9. Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.?
10. Proto-Indo-European *-nós
11. Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
12. Proto-Germanic *-īnaz
13. Proto-Indo-European *-kos
14. Proto-Germanic *-gaz
15. ?
16. Proto-Germanic *-ingaz
17. Proto-Germanic *-ilingaz
18. Proto-West Germanic *-ling
19. Old English -ling
20. Old English stærling
21. Middle English starling
22. English starling
23. From Middle English starling, sterling, sterlinge, from Old English stærling, from stær (“starling”) + -ling (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch sterlinck (“starling”). See: Old English Nouns '
stærling'.
Verbs referencing "starling"
Latin Nouns
sturnus.