English
little spiderhunter
From little + spiderhunter.
A compound of little + spiderhunter
Proto-Indo-European *lewd- ‘to bend’
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Proto-West Germanic *lūtan ‘to bow down’
Proto-West Germanic *lūtil
Old English lȳtel ‘small’
Middle English litel
English little
Today it means
noun Arachnothera longirostra, a long-billed nectar-feeding bird in the Nectariniidae family, found in South and Southeast Asia.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / little spiderhunter