Secg-sceára

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

-scára (-scara ?), an ;

secg-sceára

m. A corn-crake or a quail :--Secg-scára ortigometra (cf. erschen ortigomera, ii. 63, 53 : edischen, 115, 67), Wrt. Voc. i. 63, 21. bean crake, grass drake, meadow drake, gorse duck are given as names of the corn-crake. [Cf. (?) Icel. skári a sea-mew.] secg-sceara

Mots connexes: E. D. S. Pub. Names of Birds, p. 177, where