Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zugunruhe

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: zu-gun-ruhe
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Anxious behaviour in migratory animals, especially in birds, experienced at the beginning of the normal migration period.

Uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zugunruhe, from Zug (“move, migration”) and Unruhe (“anxiety, restlessness”).

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Zugunruhe

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does zugunruhe mean?: Anxious behaviour in migratory animals, especially in birds, experienced at the beginning of the normal migration period.
Where does zugunruhe come from?: It is traced to German.

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