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fieldfare (FEELD-fair) - n., a Eurasian thrush, Turdus pilaris, having reddish-brown plumage with an ashy head and a dark tail.
And not the food eaten while camping. Attested to at least 1100 as feldefare, and posited as present in Old English as either *feldeware, literally field-dweller, or feldefare, which in modern spelling would be field-farer, literally field-goer (though one dictionary also posits a connection to fara, companion). Either root sense makes sense, given its habitat at the edge of woodlands.
---L.
And not the food eaten while camping. Attested to at least 1100 as feldefare, and posited as present in Old English as either *feldeware, literally field-dweller, or feldefare, which in modern spelling would be field-farer, literally field-goer (though one dictionary also posits a connection to fara, companion). Either root sense makes sense, given its habitat at the edge of woodlands.
---L.
