Where does “puffinry” come from?

puffinry (English) comes from English puffin, from Middle English poffin, from English puff, from Middle English puff, from Old English pyf — a blast of wind, puff.

puffinry (English): A colony of puffins

Definitions

  1. A colony of puffins

Ancestry of “puffinry”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpuffinThe young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food
2Middle Englishpoffin—
3EnglishpuffA sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath...
4Middle Englishpuff—
5Old Englishpyfa blast of wind, puff
Every word from Old English pyf →