Where does “Puffinus” come from?

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

Puffinus (Translingual): genus

Definitions

  1. genus

Ancestry of “Puffinus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchpuffinshearwater
2EnglishpuffinThe young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food
3Middle Englishpoffin—
4EnglishpuffA sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath...
5Middle Englishpuff—
6Old Englishpyfa blast of wind, puff
Every word from Old English pyf →Every word from Middle English puff →Every word from English puff →
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