Duck Paradise
by Deborah Benoit
Title
Duck Paradise
Artist
Deborah Benoit
Medium
Photograph - Original Art By Deborah Benoit
Description
The word duck comes from Old English *dūce "diver", a derivative of the verb *dūcan "to duck, bend down low as if to get under something, or dive", because of the way many species in the dabbling duck group feed by upending; compare with Dutch duiken and German tauchen "to dive".
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This word replaced Old English ened/�nid "duck", possibly to avoid confusion with other Old English words, like ende "end" with similar forms. Other Germanic languages still have similar words for "duck", for example, Dutch eend "duck" and German Ente "duck". The word ened/�nid was inherited from Proto-Indo-European; compare: Latin anas "duck", Lithuanian �ntis "duck", Ancient Greek nēssa/nētta (νῆσσα, νῆττα) "duck", and Sanskrit āt� "water bird", among others.
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A duckling is a young duck in downy plumage or baby duck; but in the food trade young adult ducks ready for roasting are sometimes labelled "duckling".[citation needed]
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A male duck is called a drake and the female duck is called a duck or hen.
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