• KevinFRK
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    6 days ago

    Yes - checking online, in English that would be “red breast”, and Redbreast was probably the original English name. Then, being English, someone added an person’s first name, Robin Redbreast, and then it just became Robin (and other English birds have people’s names, e.g. Tom Tit, Jack Daw, and Jenny Wren).