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Feiervoggel
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Pennsylvania German
Etymology
pdc Feier fire Voggel bird
Noun
pdc noun m plural Feierveggel
firefly, lightning bug
1938, poem published in the journal of the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, page 26:
pdc Der Feiervoggel baut ken Nescht,Er singt net in de Baem;Er hot en Lutzer hinne fescht. The firefly doesn't build a nest,He doesn't sing in the trees;He has a lantern affixed behind [him].
References
Earl C Haag, Pennsylvania German Reader and Grammar (2010), page 204
pdc Elateroid beetles