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need: [OE] Need is a widespread Germanic noun, with relatives also in German not, Dutch nood, Swedish nöd, and Danish nød. It comes from a prehistoric Germanic *nauthiz, whose non- Germanic relatives, such as Old Prussian nautin ‘necessity, distress’ and Czech nyti ‘languish’, reveal its darker past, in which the accent was on ‘distress’ and ‘straitened circumstances’ rather than just the desirability of having something (these connotations survive in German not, which means ‘misery, danger, emergency’ as well as ‘need’).
white bread (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
c. 1300, as opposed to darker whole-grain type, from white (adj.) + bread (n.). Its popularity among middle-class America led to the slang adjectival sense of "conventional, bourgeois" (c. 1980). Old English had hwitehlaf.
Pel's fishing owlyoudaoicibaDictYouDict
"A large fishing owl, Scotopelia peli, with rufous plumage, darker in the upperparts and paler, with slight streaks, in the underparts, found in parts of sub-Saharan Africa", 1950s; earliest use found in David Bannerman (b. 1886). From the genitive of the name of Hendrik Severinus Pel, Dutch colonial official on the Gold Coast (now Ghana), 1840–50, and zoological collector) + fishing owl.