inaugurate

From Latin, inaugurare;  literally, to take omens from the flight of birds ( Alfred Hitchcock ? ), to practice augury, to divine.  Also, inaugurato, having consulted birds.

Transference: To give a certain sanctity to a place or official person by the ceremony of consulting the flight of birds, to consecrate, inaugurate, install.

From augurare, ( probably from  avis, bird ) to perform the services or fill the office of an augur, to take auguries, observe and interpret omens, to augur, prophesy, predict, foretell.