song

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A short piece of music with words that you sing.

   Thomas listened to his favorite song on the radio yesterday.

2. 2
   noun

   The act or art of singing.

   With a shout and a song they marched up to the gates.

3. 3
   noun

   The musical sound that a bird makes.

   A bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age.

4. 4
   noun

   A very small amount of money.

   They bought the old house for a song.

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Simplified etymology

Song is an Old English word derived from the same ancient root as sing.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sengʷʰ- Proto-Indo-European *séngʷʰ-e-ti Proto-Germanic *singwaną Proto-Germanic *sangwaz Proto-West Germanic *sangu Old English sang Middle English song English song From Middle English song, sang, from Old English sang, from Proto-West Germanic *sangu, from Proto-Germanic *sangwaz (“singing, song”), from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷʰ- (“to sing”). Cognate with Scots sang, song (“singing, song”), Saterland Frisian Song (“song”), West Frisian sang (“song”), Dutch zang (“song”), Low German sang (“song”), German Sang (“singing, song”), Swedish sång (“song”), Nor…

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