musari

Old High German

Etymology

mūs (“mouse”) +‎ aro (“eagle”) (species of Buteo often prey on small mammals)

Noun

mūsāri m

buzzard (hawk in genus Buteo)

Descendants

Middle High German: mūsar
- German: Mausar

References

"mūsāri" in Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch (6th edition 2014)
Viktor Hugo Suolahti (1909) “Mäusebussard”, in Die deutschen Vogelnamen : eine wortgeschichtliche Untersuchung‎ (in German), page 352

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