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The etymon of osprey may be ossifragus, via an unattested French *osfraie, cf. OED sub ossifrage.
The DMF lists several less Latinate forms of this word: offraigne, orfraie, orfrès>, and orprès, all referring to the same bird.
ossifragus (c.1360-79)