English
laughingthrush
From laughing + thrush.
A compound of laughing + thrush
Proto-Indo-European *trosdos
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Proto-Germanic *þruskō
Proto-Germanic *þruskijǭ
Old English þrysċe
Middle English thrusche ‘a thrush or its meat’
English thrush
Today it means
noun Any of a number of species of tropical birds in the family Leiothrichidae, found mainly in Asia.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / laughingthrush