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OED insert the following:

The pronunciation of kestrel: /kestrəl/

The main definition of  “philology” in English:

1. Love of learning and literature; the branch of knowledge that deals with the historical, linguistic, interpretative, and critical aspects of literature; literary or classical scholarship. Now chiefly U.S.

    2. Chiefly depreciative. Love of talk or argument. Obs.

  3. The branch of knowledge that deals with the structure, historical development, and relationships of languages or language families; the historical study of the phonology and morphology of languages; historical linguistics. See also comparative philology at COMPARATIVE adj. 1b.

The etimology of the word “crow” and the translation into Spanish:

  1. a. A bird of the genus Corvus; in England commonly applied to the Carrion Crow (Corvus Corone), ‘a large black bird that feeds upon the carcasses of beasts’ (Johnson); in the north of England, Scotland, and Ireland to the Rook, C. frugilegus; in U.S. to a closely allied gregarious species, C. americanus.

2. With qualifications, as hooded, Kentish, or Royston crow, Corvus Cornix; red-legged crow, C. Graculus; fish crow of America, C. ossifragus or C. caurinus; CARRION-CROW, etc.; also applied to birds outside the genus or family, as mire crow, sea crow, names for Larus ridibundus; scare crow, the Black Tern (Hydrochelidon nigra); blue crow, a crow-like jay of N. America, Gymnocitta cyanocephala; piping crows, the birds of the sub-family Gymnorhininæ or Streperinæ; and others.

 3. a. In phrases and proverbial sayings, as as black as a crow, the crow thinks its own bird fairest (or white), etc. a white crow: i.e. a rara avis. to eat (boiled) crow (U.S. colloq.): to be forced to do something extremely disagreeable and humiliating.

 b. to have a crow to pluck or pull (rarely pick) with any one: to have something disagreeable or awkward to settle with him; to have a matter of dispute, or something requiring explanation, to clear up; to have some fault to find with him. Formerly also, to pluck or pull a crow with one or together.

    c. as the crow flies, etc.: in a direct line, without any of the détours caused by following the road.

  d. Colloq. phr. stone (or stiffen) the crows: an exclamation of surprise or disgust. Esp. Austral.

  4. Astron. To southern constellation Corvus, the Raven.

5. a. A bar of iron usually with one end slightly bent and sharpened to a beak, used as a lever or prise; a CROW-BAR.

b. Used as an agricultural tool.

   6. A grappling hook, a grapnel. Obs. [Cf. CORVY, F. corbeau.]

  7. An ancient kind of door-knocker. Obs. [med.L. cornix, Erasmus Colloq., Puerpera.]

   8. a. Thieves' slang. One who keeps watch while another steals.

    b. N.Z., colloq. A person who pitches sheaves to the stacker

    c. slang. A derogatory name for a girl or woman, esp. one who is old or ugly; freq. in phr. old crow.

      9. Alch. A colour of ore, or of substances in a certain state. Obs.

And the translation into Spanish is : cuervo como sustantivo y como verbos alardear y cacarear.

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