Where does “locustfinch” come from?

locustfinch (English) comes from English finch, from Middle English fynch, from Old English finċ, from Proto-Germanic finkiz, from Proto-Indo-European (s)pingos — chaffinch.

locustfinch (English): A bird of species Paludipasser locustella, the only species of genus Paludipasser, native to south-eastern Africa

Definitions

  1. A bird of species Paludipasser locustella, the only species of genus Paludipasser, native to south-eastern Africa

Ancestry of “locustfinch”, step by step

locustfinch traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English finch

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishfinchAny bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating...
2Middle Englishfynchfinch
3Old Englishfinċfinch
4Proto-Germanicfinkizfinch
5Proto-Indo-European(s)pingoschaffinch

via English locust

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishlocustAny of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and...
2Middle Englishlocustelocust
3Latinlocustalocust, grasshopper; crustacean, marine...
4Proto-Indo-Europeanlēk-string, twig, tendril; leg, the main muscle of...
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