Did you perchance mean one of these? bird, birds, biro
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Examples
“La birdo flugas en la cxambron (= gxi estas ekster la cxambro, kaj flugas nun en gxin).”
“Cxevalido estas nematura cxevalo, kokido nematura koko, bovido nematura bovo, birdido nematura birdo.”
“La birdo flugas en la cxambro (= gxi estas en la cxambro, kaj flugas en gxi).”
“Estas ia birdo sur tiu arbo, there is a bird of some sort on that tree.”
“Dum la soldatoj svingis la brakojn kaj ekridis unu post la alia, pri la kuragxa birdo, la regxo auxdis ies vocxon.”
“Kelkaj kugloj pasis preter gxi, sed la trankvileco de la birdo dauxris same kiel antauxe.”
“La birdo kasxas sin sub la folioj, the bird hides itself under the leaves.”
“When directly preceding or following its noun, it is called an attributive adjective: la granda cxevalo = the large horse. bela birdo = a beautiful bird. floro flava = a yellow flower. forta knabo = a strong boy.”
“An adjective modifying two or more nouns used together is of course given the plural form: bonaj viroj, good men. grandaj cxevaloj, large horses. belaj birdo kaj floro (bela birdo kaj bela floro), beautiful bird and (beautiful) flower.”
“La birdo vidis gxin, the bird saw it (something else than the bird).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘birdo’.
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Birds of Many Linguistic Feathers
"Bird" in a gazillion languages.
ushag, uccello, oiseau, ocell, 鸟, 鳥, vogel, πουλί, 새, pássaro, птица, pájaro and 60 more...
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Bestoj
animals of the Esperanto kingdom
muso, birdo, testudo, zebro, ĉevalo, kastoro, taŭro, okso, koko, insekto, cervo, vombato and 16 more...
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Australian
words not found in other
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scrabbleabdul, abdulled, abdulling, abi, abiu, ablactate, absinthial, absinthian, absoluter, acalypha, acanthodian, acaroids and 5128 more...
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silly, silly words
besnotted, skedaddle, humdinger, pamplemousse, pantalones, underpants gnomes, underoos, herpes zoster, possums, meat slurry, sausage, peevish and 256 more...
Tweets
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tbtabby An egg-spitting hermaphrodite in Super Mario Bros. 2. Sep 9, 2009
pterodactyl Bear in mind, folks, that "birdo" is not pronounced "bird-oh", but rather "BEERrdo". In Esperanto, i sounds like "ee", r is slightly trilled, and o is short, without any trace of a w at the end. Jun 18, 2009
chained_bear Nice tag. Will someone please put it on preggers? ;) Jun 18, 2009
rolig I wonder if bird could be etymologically related to the Slovene word brdo, which means "hill, small mountain". According to Marko Snoj's Slovene Etymological Dictionary, this word comes from the Old Slavic *bъ"do, meaning also "comb" and more specifically, "weaver's reed" (a comblike tool for keeping the threads separated; this meaning has been retained in the Czech brdo and the Russian бёрдо / byordo. Snoj suggests that the original meaning was "something sharp, a sharp tool, or sharp rocks". He points out that in Latvian, birde means "loom" (the weaving machine), and birds means "weaver's reed". Strangely, he does not take the word back to its IE root, but he suggests that it is related to the Old English bord, meaning "board". I am wondering if the notion of "sharpness" could be behind the English "bird", as in the sharpness of the beak. Just a thought (and another, probably gratuitous, Slovene interpolation from me). Jun 18, 2009
yarb Actually, learning that this is Esperanto for bird has elevated that language in my estimation. A proper language ought to have kinks - even a designed one. Otherwise we might as well all just talk in algol or cobol or fortran. Jun 18, 2009
yarb Astounding! Jun 18, 2009
reesetee Amazing. I just checked OED too, and here's what it says: "ME. byrd, bryd: OE. brid masc. (pl. briddas), in Northumbrian bird, birdas ‘offspring, young,’ but used only of the young of birds. There is no corresponding form in any other Teutonic lang., and the etymology is unknown. If native Teut., it would represent an original *bridjo-z: this cannot be derived from BROOD, BREED, and even the suggestion that it may be formed like these from the root *bru- (see BROOD) appears to be quite inadmissible." Jun 18, 2009
rolig According to the Online Etymological Dictionary, the English word bird is of "uncertain" origin and has no cognate in other Germanic languages. Now that surprised me. Jun 18, 2009
reesetee Or at least not as...bleh. Jun 18, 2009
qroqqa I suppose avo was already taken as "grandfather" . . . foglo or fuglo could do; ornito would be suitable. I see Ido uses ucelo. Surely any of these are more international than birdo? Jun 18, 2009
reesetee I agree. But I added it to the list for the sake of completeness.
On the other hand, maybe the list doesn't need to be quite so complete. ;-) Jun 18, 2009
madmouth also, what happened to universal phonological appeal? for all that it's short and common, almost all non-native speakers I've met have trouble pronouncing 'bird'. Jun 18, 2009
qroqqa Also one of the main reasons Esperanto can't be taken 100% seriously. Jun 17, 2009