eyas

n.
A nestling hawk or falcon, especially one to be trained for falconry.

[Middle English eias, from an eias, alteration of *a nias, an eyas, from Old French niais, from Latin nīdus, nest.]

(EYE-uhs)

noun
A nestling, especially a young falcon or hawk.

Etymology
By erroneous splitting of the original "a nyas" into "an eyas". From Latin nidus (nest), ultimately from the Indo-European root sed- (to sit) that is also the source of sit, chair, saddle, soot, sediment, cathedral, and tetrahedron

Usage
"One of the three peregrine falcon chicks nesting atop downtown Seattle's Washington Mutual Bank died early Wednesday. A wildlife expert who spotted the struggling eyas freed it and then transported it to the Woodland Park Zoo." — Marc Powell; Ailing Falcon Chick Dies in Seattle; The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington); Jun 30, 1994.

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A nestling raptor bird to be trained as a hawking bird.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: an unfledged or nestling hawk

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Common misspelling(s) of eyas

• eyars
• eyasr