Bird

See also: bird and bírd

English

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Bird (surname)

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Alternative forms

• Byrd

Etymology

• As an English and Scottish surname, from the noun bird.
• As an Irish surname, Anglicized/translated from several names erroneously thought to contain the element éan (“bird”) such as Ó hÉinigh (see Heagney), Ó hÉanna (see Heaney), Ó hÉanacháin (see Heneghan) and Mac an Déaghanaigh (see McEneaney).
• Similarly translated from several other languages containing the word bird, such as German Vogel, French Loiseau, Czech Ptáček see Ptacek), Pták, Polish Ptak.
• This also extends to Native American names, such as Lakota ziŋtkala (“bird”). Compare Eagle, Hawk; Blackbird, Kingbird, Redbird, etc.

Proper noun

Bird

1. A surname.
2. (jazz) Charlie Parker (1920–1955), Jazz saxophonist.
   • 2012, John Szwed, quoting Miles Davis, So What: The Life of Miles Davis‎, arrow books, →ISBN:

     When Bird played like that, it was like hearing music for the first time. I'd never heard anybody play like that. Later Sonny Rollins and I would try to do things like that, and me and Trane, those short, hard bursts of musical phrases. But when Bird played like that, he was outrageous…

Derived terms

• Hargreaves-Bird cell

Anagrams

• drib