birdo
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɜːdəʊ/
Audio (AU) (file)
Noun
birdo (plural birdos)
- (Australia, slang) A birder or birdwatcher.
- 2014, Rod Giblett, Canadian Wetlands: Places and People, page 182:
- I encountered a few of these "birdos", as we call them in Australia, when I visited Oak Hammock Marsh[.]
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See also
Esperanto
Etymology
From English bird, from Middle English brid, from Old English bridd.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbirdo/
- Hyphenation: bir‧do
- Rhymes: -irdo
Audio (file)
Noun
birdo (accusative singular birdon, plural birdoj, accusative plural birdojn)
- bird
- 1910, Ivy Kellerman, A Complete Grammar of Esperanto, Project Gutenberg transcription
- Sur malgranda branĉo restis nesto, sed kie estis la birdoj!
- On a small branch sat a nest, but where were the birds!
- Sur malgranda branĉo restis nesto, sed kie estis la birdoj!
- 1910, Ivy Kellerman, A Complete Grammar of Esperanto, Project Gutenberg transcription
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