Origin Unknown. “Bird, N., Etymology.” Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford UP, March 2025, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/5985901037.

• 2.106 unless the birds perch on them;
• 5.055 Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
• 6.068 Eagles are not kindly birds.
• 6.068 were the greatest of all birds;
• 6.074 Fifteen birds in five fir-trees,
• 6.074 But, funny little birds, they had no wings!
• 6.075 Fly away little birds!
• 6.075 Come down little birds,
• 6.075 Sing, sing little birds!
• 6.082 Back swept the great birds that were with him,
• 6.082 Other birds flew to the tree-tops
• 7.002 as off rose fifteen great birds from the mountain’s side.
• 7.002 and saw that the birds were already high up
• 7.009 in after days the King of All Birds
• 7.084 Fifteen birds
• 7.116 and going off like a flock of birds into the distance.
• 7.133 and birds
• 7.134 Birds began to sing less.
• 8.092 and even birds,
• 9.002 that could hit a bird’s eye
• 11.008 and again the harsh croak of a bird.
• 11.009 and I don’t like these dark birds,
• 11.019 broken by no bird or sound
• 12.083 Drat the bird!’
• 12.084 this is a very old bird indeed,
• 12.096 hammered and carven with birds
• 13.068 like a bird on a steeple.
• 13.071 but there was a gathering of very many birds.
• 14.040 and from the birds that loved his folk,
• 15.001 But ever more thickly the birds were gathering.
• 15.002 and these are birds that dwell always
• 15.002 and far off there are many carrion birds
• 15.005 but I cannot follow the speech of such birds,
• 15.012 but that old bird understands us,
• 15.013 and with him came a most decrepit old bird.
• 15.015 Behold! the birds are gathering
• 15.019 But many are gathering hither beside the birds.
• 15.019 and carrion birds are with them hoping for battle
• 17.040 like a vast cloud of birds,
• 19.043 with birds and blossoms in spring