Sucga

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

an;

sucga

m. The name of a bird. [In later times the word seems to apply to the whitethroat, which is called hazeck (Worcest.) and hay sucker (Devon), and to the hedge-sparrow, isaac or hazock (Worcest.), segge (Devon), E. D. S. Pub., Bird Names, pp. 23, 29. Chaucer uses heysugge (-sogge, -soke) of the sparrow: Thou (the cuckoo) mordrer of the heysugge, Parl. of F. 612. Heges-sugge (q. vicetula, as sucga does.]:--Sucga, sugga, suca ficetula, Txts. 62, 422. Sucga, Wrt. Voc. ii. 35, 53. Sugga, i. 62, 43. Tó sucgan gráf, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 437, 27. [Sugge, bryd curuca, linosa, Prompt. Parv. 483, col. 2. Halliwell quotes sugge from Palsgrave.] sucga

Verwandte Wörter: ) is used to gloss the same word,