Possibly from <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Indo-European *spḗr (“sparrow”), but these may instead be substrate loans from lost non-Indo-European languages. *<span class="searchmatch">parezā</span> f a bird of...
descendants) *sprh₂-és-eh₂ <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Italic</span>: *<span class="searchmatch">parezā</span> Latin: parra (“kind of bird (of ill omen)”) Umbrian: parfa (“certain bird”) *spr̥h₂-w-ó-s <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Celtic: *sɸrawos...