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Описание: , el.wikipedia.org/wiki/ br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snag_breac fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_bavarde en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_magpie la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_pica en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpie References dating back to Old English call the bird a "pie", derived from the Latin pica and cognate to French pie; this term has fallen out of use. The tendency in previous centuries was to give birds common names, such as robin redbreast (which now is called the robin) and jenny wren. The magpie was originally variously maggie pie and mag pie. The term "pica" for the human disorder involving a compulsive desire to eat items that are not food is borrowed from the Latin name of the magpie (Pica pica), for its reputed tendency to feed on miscellaneous things. Magpies were originally known as simply "pies". This could derive from a Proto-Indo-European root *(s)peyk- meaning "pointed", in reference to the beak or perhaps the tail (cf. woodpecker). The prefix "mag" dates from the 16th century and comes from the short form of the given name Margaret, which was once used to mean women in general (as Joe or Jack is used for men today); the pie's call was considered to sound like the idle chattering of a woman, and so it came to be called the "Mag pie". "Pie" as a term for the bird dates to the 13th century, and the word "pied", first recorded in 1552, became applied to other birds that resembled the magpie in having black-and-white plumage. Image of Pie bavarde adapted from an original by Alexis Lours via Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/A$Um

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