Past tense of 'birr'; made a whirring sound.
From the verb 'birr,' which is imitative in origin. The '-ed' suffix indicates past tense in English.
Onomatopoeia like 'birr' shows how humans across cultures literally recreate sounds in their languages—a bird's wings 'birr' the same way whether you're in England or Ethiopia!
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