lechuza.
owl
Meaning & usage
owl
barn owl (any species of owl from the family Tytonidae)
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *nokʷt-ewder. Proto-Italic *noktowe Latin noctū Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *-os Archaic Latin -os Latin -us Latin *noctūus Latin noctua Old Spanish *nochua Old Spanish *nochuza? Old Spanish nechuza ▲ Spanish lecheinflu. Spanish lechuza From Old Spanish nechuza, influenced by leche (“milk”) due to a popular belief that owls “breastfeed” human infants at night. Coromines supposes that Old Spanish nechuza developed via vowel dissimilation from an older *nochuza, a derivative of an also-unattested *nochua + -uza (as gentuza < gente), and that inherited from Latin noctua (“owl”).
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