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Neo-Latin Emberizinae, equivalent to
Emberiz(
a) the bunting genus (<
dialectal German; compare
Swiss German Ämerzen, Imbrütze; Old High German amarzo, amirzo, hypocoristic forms of
amaro (>
German Ammer bunting), short for
*amarofogal literally, emmer-bird; see
emmer,
yellowhammer) +
-inae -inae