higera

== Old English == === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *higurō (“a type of bird, jay”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈxi.ɡe.rɑ/, [ˈhi.ɣe.rɑ] === Noun === higera m jay magpie jackdaw woodpecker ==== Declension ==== Weak: ==== Related terms ==== higere ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: heghwalle, hygh-whele, eywal (partially, contributing the first component) English: (dialectal) haihow, heighaw, high hoe, haho (“woodpecker”) === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “higera”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.