tambaro
woodpecker
tafr
noun. woodpecker (bird)
tavr
noun. woodpecker (bird)
tavor
noun. woodpecker (bird)
tavor
noun. woodpecker, knocker, woodpecker, knocker; [G.] wood fay
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s for a “woodpecker”, derived from the primitive agental form ᴹ✶tamrō “knocker” (Ety/TAM). It had an (archaic?) variant tafr, pronounced tavr, which became tavor when the final r became syllabic.
Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, G. tavor was a noun for “a wood fay” (GL/69).
Cognates
- ᴹQ. tambaro “woodpecker, (lit.) knocker” ✧ Ety/TAM
Derivations
Element in
- N. Tavrobel ✧ Ety/TAM
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶tamrō > tafr > tavor [tamrō] > [tamro] > [tamr] > [tavr] > [tavor] ✧ Ety/TAM
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tambaro
noun. woodpecker, (lit.) knocker
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “woodpecker, knocker”, an agental form of ᴹQ. tamba- “knock” (Ety/TAM).
Cognates
- N. tavor “woodpecker, knocker, woodpecker, knocker; [G.] wood fay” ✧ Ety/TAM
Derivations
Elements
Word Gloss tamba- “to knock, keep on knocking” -ro “agental suffix” Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶tamrō > tambaro [tambaro] ✧ Ety/TAM
tamrō
noun. woodpecker, knocker
Changes
tamarō→ tamrō ✧ Ety/TAMDerivations
- ᴹ√TAM “knock” ✧ Ety/TAM
Derivatives
Variations
- tamarō ✧ EtyAC/TAM (
tamarō)
tambaro noun "woodpecker" (TAM)