strazds

• (dialectal form) strads

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *trazdas with an additional initial s-, from Proto-Indo-European *trosdos (“thrush”). In some Latvian dialects, the z was eliminated by dissimilation, yielding strads.

Cognates include Lithuanian strãzdas, dialectal strazdà, strazà, strãzas, Old Prussian tresde, Proto-Slavic *trozdъ, from *drozdъ (Russian, Bulgarian дрозд (drozd), Ukrainian дрізд (drizd), Czech drozd, dialectal drozda, zdrozda, drozen, Polish drozd), Proto-Germanic *þrau(d)-st-, *þrōst-, *þrast-ur (Old High German drōsca-, German Drossel, English throstle, Old Norse þrǭstr-, Norwegian trost, Swedish trast), Breton trask, draskl, tred, dred, Latin turdus (< *tr̥zdos) (Spanish tordo, Portuguese tordo, Italian tordo).^[1]

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strazds m (1st declension)

1. starling, thrush, throstle (gregarious birds of the families Sturnidae and Turdidae; various species)

   strazdu dzimta ― the starling family (Sturnidae)

   strazdu būris ― a bird house (for starlings)

   mājas strazds ― common (lit. house) starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

   sila strazds ― mistle thrush (Turdus viscivorus)

   dziedātājstrazds ― song thrush (Turdus philomelos)

• dziedātājstrazds
• mājas strazds
• melnais mežastrazds, melnais meža strazds, melnais strazds
• pelēkais strazds
• sila strazds
• strazdiene