drozd (Serbo-Croatian)

Where does "drozd" come from?

The Serbo-Croatian word 'drozd' traces its origins back to the Proto-Indo-European root *trósdos, which denoted the thrush bird. Over millennia, the term evolved through Proto-Balto-Slavic and Proto-Slavic into its current form, while sharing distant linguistic roots with the English word 'thrush' and the Latin 'turdus'.

Ancestors

• *drozdъ (Proto-Slavic)

Updated June 2026

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