Where does “bjørkefink” come from?
bjørkefink (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål fink, from Middle Low German vinke, from Old Saxon *fink, from Proto-Germanic finkiz, from Proto-Indo-European (s)pingos — chaffinch.
bjørkefink (Norwegian Bokmål): brambling, the bird "Fringilla montifringilla"
Definitions
- brambling, the bird "Fringilla montifringilla"
Ancestry of “bjørkefink”, step by step
bjørkefink traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.