DictionaryRoot: spearwa
Old English
spearwa
sparrow
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noun
sparrow
SPAR-oh/ˈspærəʊ/
A small, usually brownish seed-eating songbird.
Etymology
Old English spearwa already named the sparrow. The English name has also been extended, with qualifying words, to other small birds resembling it, such as the junco.