staniel

• stanyel, stannyel, stannel, standgale, stanchel, steingale, stonegall

From Middle English staniel (“bird of prey”), from Old English stānġilla, stānġella (“staniel, pelican”, literally “rock-crier”), from stān (“stone, rock”) + ġella (“yeller, crier”). More at stone, yell.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstænjəl/
• Rhymes: -ænjəl

staniel (plural staniels)

1. The kestrel or windhover.

• stand hawk
• stannel hawk

• Jules Derocquigny (1904) “Staniel”, in A Contribution to the Study of the French Element in English, page 280

• Latines, alestin, elastin, entails, nail set, nailest, nailset, salient, saltine, stealin', tselina