Auerhuhn

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German ûr-han, from Old High German ūr-huon (variant of orre-huon), from Proto-West Germanic *ūrʀahōn, from a compound of the Proto-Germanic elements *urzô (“black grouse ~ capercaillie”) +‎ *hōną (“hen”) (see Huhn), literally "grouse-hen", referring to the bird's call. The first element, which is cognate with Swedish orre and Faroese orri, is possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wérsō (“virile, male; male livestock animal, bull calf”). Cognate with German Low German Urhane and Dutch woerhaan (< *worʀahanō). === Pronunciation === === Noun === Auerhuhn n (strong, genitive Auerhuhnes or Auerhuhns, plural Auerhühner) capercaillie, wood grouse (Tetrao urogallus) ==== Declension ==== ==== Hypernyms ==== Raufußhuhn ==== Related terms ==== Auerhahn ==== Descendants ==== → Dutch: auerhoen === Further reading === “Auerhuhn” in Duden online Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*urzan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 561