Editing Swan (section)

==Taxonomy and terminology==
The genus ''Cygnus'' was introduced in 1764 by the French naturalist [[François Alexandre Pierre de Garsault]].<ref>{{ cite book | last=Garsault | first=François Alexandre Pierre de | author-link=François Alexandre Pierre de Garsault | year=1764 | title=Les figures des plantes et animaux d'usage en medecine, décrits dans la Matiere Medicale de Geoffroy Medecin | volume=5 | language=French | location=Paris | publisher=Desprez | at=Plate 688 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33606635 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite journal | last1=Welter-Schultes | first1=F.W. | last2=Klug | first2=R. | year=2009 | title=Nomenclatural consequences resulting from the rediscovery of ''Les figures des plantes et animaux d'usage en médecine'', a rare work published by Garsault in 1764, in the zoological literature | journal=Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature | volume=66 | issue=3 | pages=225–241 [238] | doi=10.21805/bzn.v66i3.a1 | url=https://www.biotaxa.org/bzn/issue/view/5184/306 }}</ref> The English word ''swan'', akin to the German {{Lang|de|Schwan}}, Dutch {{lang|nl|zwaan}} and Swedish {{lang|sv|svan}}, is derived from the [[Indo-European root]] ''{{PIE|*swen}}''(''H'') ({{gloss|to sound, to sing}}).<ref>{{OEtymD|swan}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World|last1=Mallory|first1=J. P.|last2=Adams|first2=D. Q.|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2006|isbn=0-19-928791-0|location=New York|pages=360}}</ref>

{{Vanchor|Young swan|text=Young swans}} are known as ''cygnets'', from [[Old French]] {{lang|fro|cigne}} or {{lang|fro|cisne}} (diminutive suffix ''et'' {{gloss|little}}), from the [[Latin]] word {{wikt-lang|la|cygnus}}, a variant form of {{lang|la|cycnus}} {{gloss|swan}}, itself from the [[Greek language|Greek]] {{lang|grc|κύκνος}} {{lang|grc-Latn|kýknos}}, a word of the same meaning.<ref>{{L&S|cycnus1|cycnus|ref}}</ref><ref>{{LSJ|ku/knos|κύκνος|ref}}.</ref><ref>{{OEtymD|cygnet}}</ref> An adult male is a ''cob'', from [[Middle English]] {{lang|enm|cobbe}} (leader of a group); an adult female is a ''pen''.<ref name="PeterYoung">{{cite book |last1=Young |first1=Peter |title=Swan |date=2008 |publisher=Reaktion |location=London |isbn=978-1-86189-349-9 |page=13}}</ref> A group of swans is called a bevy{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} or a wedge.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lipton |first=James |url=http://archive.org/details/exaltationoflark00lipt |title=An exaltation of larks : or, The venereal game |date=1977 |publisher=New York : Viking |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-670-30044-0 |edition=Expanded 2nd |pages=36}}</ref>