Etymology

jack + daw . The former element may refer either to its characteristic call, often represented as tchak-tchak , or to the name Jack. The latter, daw , means "jackdaw" in itself, from Old English daƿe , and is cognate with Old High German tahe , which through Middle High German tahele became modern German Dohle .

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: jack·daw

Noun

jackdaw (plural: jackdaws )

1. A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a daw .

Translations

• Albanian: stërqoka
• Basque: bele txiki
• Belarussian: галка (hałka )
• Bosnian: čavka f
• Breton: kavan-tour
• Bulgarian: чавка (čavka)
• Catalan: gralla
• Croatian: čavka
• Czech: kavka
• Danish: allike
• Dutch: kauw m
• Esperanto: monedo
• Estonian: hakk
• Faroese: rókur
• Finnish: naakka
• French: choucas m
• Frisian: ka
• Friulian: cornete , çore cenerine
• Gallegan: gralla cereixeira
• German: Dohle f
• Greek, Ancient: κολοιός (coloeos, m)
• Greek, Modern: κάργια (kárya)
• Hungarian: csóka
• Icelandic: dvergkráka
• Irish: cág
• Italian: taccola
• Ladin: agacion , cornacia
• Latin: monedula f
• Latvian: kovārnis
• Lithuanian: kuosa
• Lower Sorbian: kawka
• Macedonian: чавка (čavka)
• Maltese: ċawla
• Norwegian: kaie
• Occitan: gralhon
• Polish: kawka
• Portuguese: gralha de nuca cinzenta
• Romanian: stăncuţa
• Romansh: tulaun (curnagl grisch)
• Russian: галка (galka)
• Sami: toardnagájon
• Sardinian: tàccula , carroga , carroghedda
• Scottish: cathag
• Serbian: чавка (čavka)
• Slovak: kavka
• Slovenian: kavka f
• Spanish: grajilla
• Swedish: kaja
• Turkish: küçük karga
• Ukrainian: галка (halka)
• Upper Sorbian: kawka
• Welsh: jac-y-do , jac-do

See also

• Jackdaw in Wikipedia