mésange

tit, chickadee, titmouse (any of a large number of small tree-dwelling passerine birds)

Related: mésange à tête noire, mésange charbonnière, mésange de Pologne, mésange penduline, mésange rémiz

Inherited from Middle French mésange, from Old French mesenge, masenge (“titmouse”), from Medieval Latin misinga and spelling variants, from Frankish *meisinga (“titmouse”) and variants, from Proto-Germanic *maisǭ (“titmouse”), *-ingō (“-ing”). Cognate with Old High German meisa (“titmouse”), Old English māse (“small bird”), Middle Dutch mese (“titmouse”). More at English titmouse.