Bird

bird bírd English + (surname) Alternative forms en Byrd Etymology As an English and Scottish surname, from the noun en bird. As an Irish surname, Anglicized/translated from several names erroneously thought to contain the element ga éan bird such as ga Ó hÉinigh (see en Heagney), ga Ó hÉanna (see en Heaney), ga Ó hÉanacháin (see en Heneghan) and ga Mac an Déaghanaigh (see en McEneaney). Similarly translated from several other languages containing the word bird, such as de Vogel, fr Loiseau, cs Ptáček see en Ptacek), cs Pták, pl Ptak. This also extends to Native American names, such as lkt ziŋtkala bird. Compare en Eagle, en Hawk; en Blackbird, en Kingbird, en Redbird, etc. Proper noun en. en jazz Nickname of Charlie Parker (1920–1955), jazz saxophonist. en 2012 w:John Szwed w:Miles Davis So What: The Life of Miles Davis arrow books 9781448106462 https://books.google.com/books?id=GA-fCdG3CP4C&pg=PT73&dq=%22Bird+played%22&hl=&cd=13&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Bird%20played%22&f=false When Bird played like that, it was like hearing music for the first time. I'd never heard anybody play like that. Later Sonny Rollins and I would try to do things like that, and me and Trane, those short, hard bursts of musical phrases. But when Bird played like that, he was outrageous… Derived terms en Bird-Meertens formalism en Hargreaves-Bird cell Anagrams en bdir drib en surnames from nicknames surnames from common nouns en Individuals