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===Etymology=== The common chiffchaff's [[English language|English]] name is onomatopoeic, referring to the repetitive ''{{not a typo|chiff-chaff}}'' song of the European subspecies.<ref name= Cocker>{{cite book | last = Cocker | first = Mark |author2=Mabey, Richard |title = Birds Britannica | year = 2005 |location=London | publisher = Chatto & Windus | pages = 378–379|isbn = 978-0-7011-6907-7}}</ref> There are similar names in some other European languages, such as the [[Dutch language|Dutch]] {{lang|nl|tjiftjaf}}, the [[German language|German]] {{lang|de|Zilpzalp}}, [[Welsh language|Welsh]] {{lang|cy|siff-saff}} and [[Finnish language|Finnish]] {{lang|fi|tiltaltti}}.<ref>[https://glosbe.com/fi/en/tiltaltti Tiltaltti] in Glosbe.</ref> The [[binomial nomenclature|binomial name]] is of [[Greek language|Greek]] origin; ''Phylloscopus'' comes from ''{{Transliteration|el|phúllon}}''/{{lang|el|φύλλον}} "leaf", and ''{{Transliteration|el|skopéō}}''/{{lang|el|σκοπέω}} "to look at" or "to see",<ref name= Terres >{{cite book | last = Terres | first = John K.|title = The Audubon Society encyclopedia of North American birds | year = 1980 | publisher = Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.| location = New York|page =1001| isbn = 978-0-517-03288-6 }}</ref> since this genus comprises species that spend much of their time feeding in trees, while ''collybita'' is a corruption of κολλυβιστής (''kollubistḗs'') "money changer", the song being likened to the jingling of coins.<ref name= Cocker/> In some languages their tree-dwelling habit is hinted in the vernacular name. For example, in Swedish the common chiffchaff is called ''gransångare'', a compound of ''gran'' (i.e. "[[Picea abies|spruce]]") and ''sångare'', meaning both "singer" and [[Old World warbler]].
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