General
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Thai calls the woodswallows นกแอ่นพง nók àeen pʰoŋ 'thicket-swallow (bird)', a calque on English.
The name is based on Thai แอ่น àeen, an old areal bird name akin to to the modern Chinese 燕 and Vietnamese én, which means 'swallow; any of various swallow-like birds'. In modern Thai this name has been used as the base for the formation of bird names in several different families of birds of simllar appearance, principally the Hirundinidae (swallows) and Apodidae (swifts), but also including the Hemiprocnidae (treeswifts), Glareolidae (pratincoles), and Artamidae (woodswallows) - all of which remain แอ่น àeen in the traditional classification. An expanded discussion of àeen appears at the Hirundinidae.
Species names
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Artamus fuscus![]() |
Ashy woodswallow Ashy wood swallow Ashy swallow shrike |
นกแอ่นพง nók àeen pʰoŋ 'thicket-swallow (bird)' |
Chim Nhạn rừng 'forest-swallow (bird)' (12, 13, 34) |
灰燕鵙 (灰燕鵙) 'grey swallow-shrike' |
ハイイロモリツバメ (灰色森燕) hai-iro mori-tsubame 'grey forest-swallow' |