chien

fr-adj

chien (feminine chienne, masculine plural chiens, feminine plural chiennes)

chienne (feminine)
chiens (masculine plural)
chiennes (feminine plural)

Haitian Creole: chyen

Inherited from Middle French chien, from Old French chien, from Latin canis, canem (“dog”).

chien hargneux a toujours l’oreille déchirée


pies

pl-noun

pies m animal (diminutive piesek, augmentative psisko, related adjective psi)

piesek (diminutive)
psisko (augmentative)
psi (adjective)
pies (nominative singular)
psy (nominative plural)
psa (genitive singular)
psów (genitive plural)
psu (dative singular)
psom (dative plural)
psa (accusative singular)
psy (accusative plural)
psem (instrumental singular)
psami (instrumental plural)
psie (locative singular)
psach (locative plural)
psie (singular vocative)
psy (plural vocative)


march

meirch (plural)
caseg (feminine)
march
farch (soft)

From Middle Welsh march, from Proto-Brythonic *marx, from Proto-Celtic *markos.


can

oc-noun

can m (plural cans, feminine canha, feminine plural canhas)

cans (plural)
canha (feminine)
canhas (feminine plural)

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin canis, canem.


quarter

en-noun

quarter (countable and uncountable, plural quarters)

From Middle English quarter, from Anglo-Norman quarter, from Latin quartarius, from quartus. Compare Spanish cuarto (“room, quarters; quarter”). Doublet of quartier.

cog

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-quarter.wav

çerek

one of four equal parts — see also one-fourth

[A]t last she kicked right over the carriage pole and fell down, after giving me a severe blow on my near quarter.

[1877], Anna Sewell, “A Strike for Liberty”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 106:

(farriery) The part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, the side of its coffin.

quartier

part on either side of a horse's hoof between toe and heel


beer

nl-noun

beer m (plural beren, diminutive beertje n)

beren (plural)
beertje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: beer

From Middle Dutch bêer, from Old Dutch *bēr, from Proto-West Germanic *bair.

De kinderboerderij heeft een aantal zeugen en maar één beer.

The petting zoo has a number of sows and only one boar.


beer

From Middle Dutch bere, from Old Dutch bēro, from Proto-West Germanic *bair.

Bier (alternative)
bieër (alternative)
Béër (alternative)


beer

Dutch: beer

West Flemish: beir

From Old Dutch *bēr, from Proto-West Germanic *bair.


man

men (plural)
mang (alternative)
mane (alternative)
mans (alternative)
mon (alternative)
mxn (alternative)
mans (alternative)
mens (alternative)
mandem (alternative)
mens (alternative)
mxn (alternative)
myn (alternative)

Tok Pisin: man

→ Cantonese: man

→ Chinook Jargon: man

→ Korean: 맨 (maen)

→ Mandarin: man (mān)

→ Spanish: man

→ Thai: แมน (mɛɛn)

→ Volapük: man

From Middle English man, from Old English human being, person, man (“g=m”), from Proto-West Germanic *mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann- (“g=m”), from Proto-Indo-European *mon- (“human being, man”). Doublet of Manu.

inh

a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle

a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle

behind every great man there stands a woman

behind every successful man there stands a woman

every man is the architect of his own fortune

give a man a fish and you feed him for a day

teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime

it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God

the best laid plans of mice and men go oft astray

the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry

Stay away from my man!


os

Afrikaans: os

Negerhollands: os

From Middle Dutch osse, from Old Dutch *osso, earlier *ohso, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô.


apple

qualifier

< <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">apples</i>

→ Abenaki: aples (< apples)

→ Arikara: ápos (< apples)

→ Assamese: আপেল (apel)

→ Bengali: আপেল (apel)

→ Dhivehi: އާފަލު (āfalu)

→ East Futuna: apo

→ Fijian: yapolo

→ Fiji Hindi: aapul

→ Finnish: äpyli

→ Malay: epal (Malaysia)

→ Malayalam: ആപ്പിൾ (āppiḷ)

→ Maori: āporo

→ Marshallese: abōļ

→ Sinhalese: ඇපල් (æpal)

→ Sotho: apole

Sylheti: ꠀꠄꠚꠟ (aefól)

→ Tamil: ஆப்பிள் (āppiḷ)

→ Telugu: ఆపిల్ (āpil)

desc

→ Thai: แอปเปิล (ɛ́p-bpə̂n)

→ Thai: แอปเปิล (ɛ́p-bpə̂n)

→ Tokelauan: apu

→ Tok Pisin: apel

→ Yurok: 'erplers (< apples)

Book of Genesis
Frans Floris
Malmö Art Museum
The Fall of Man

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl
Proto-Germanic *aplaz
Proto-West Germanic *applu
Old English æppel
Middle English appel
English apple
The noun is derived from Middle English appel (“Malus domestica fruit or tree, apple; any type of fruit, nut, or tuber; tree bearing fruit; (figurative) ball, sphere; (Christianity) forbidden fruit in Eden”), from Old English æppel (“apple; any type of fruit; (figurative) ball, sphere; eyeball”), from Proto-West Germanic *applu (“apple; any type of fruit”), from Proto-Germanic *aplaz (“apple; any type of fruit”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl, *h₂ébl̥ (“apple”).
As regards sense 1.4 (“forbidden fruit”), the type of fruit eaten by Adam and Eve is not identified in the Book of Genesis in the Bible. It may have come to be identified with the apple because of the similarity between Latin mālum (“apple”) and malum (“evil; misery, torment; wrongdoing”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
Cognate with Danish æble, Dutch appel, German Apfel, Irish úll, Lithuanian óbuolỹs, Russian я́блоко (jábloko), Scots aipple, Swedish äpple, Welsh afal, West Frisian apel, possibly Ancient Greek ἄμπελος (ámpelos, “vine”).

ref

From the collection of the Malmö Art Museum in Malmö, Scania, Sweden.

omena

something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica

the apple doesn't fall far from the tree

the apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

Him [man] by fraud I [Satan] have ſeduc'd / From his Creator, and the more to increaſe / Your vvonder, vvith an Apple; […]

1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC, signature [Ll4], recto, lines 485–487:

I read and re-read her letter, and some softened feelings stole into my heart, and dared to whisper paradisiacal dreams of love and joy; but the apple was already eaten, and the angel's arm bared to drive me from all hope.

1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter V, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 102:

Yes, of all human follies, love, / Methinks, hath served me best. / The Apple had done but little for me / If Eve had not done the rest.

1829, Robert Southey, “All for Love, or A Sinner Well Saved. Canto II.”, in All for Love; and The Pilgrim to Compostela, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 20:

Yes, fair Eve, just as Adam ate the apple, so beware!

1871, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Congratulations, etc.”, in My Wife and I: Or, Harry Henderson’s History, New York, N.Y.: J. B. Ford and Company, →OCLC, page 399:

Yes mam. Woman ate the apple, and discovered sex, and lost all shame, and lift^([sic]) up her fig-leaf, and she must suffer the pains of hell. Monthly.

1975 (date written), Barry Reckord, “White Witch”, in For the Reckord: A Collection of Three Plays, London: Oberon Books, published 2010, →ISBN:

Sharon you've got a husband / And a family and a farm / I've got the apple of temptation / And a diamond snake around my arm

1976, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “Song for Sharon”, in Hejira, Los Angeles, Calif.: Asylum Records, →OCLC:

A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.

(Christianity) According to postbiblical Christian tradition, the fruit of the tree of knowledge which was eaten by Adam and Eve despite God commanding them not to do so; the forbidden fruit.


love

From Latin lupa, feminine of lupus. Compare Venetan lova, French louve.


cow

en-noun

cow (countable and uncountable, plural cows or cattle or (archaic or dialectal) kine)

cows (plural)
cattle (plural)
kine (archaic dialectal plural)

bull

antonym(s) of “female domesticated ox or other bovine”

Sranan Tongo: kaw

Tok Pisin: kau

q

from <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">cows</i>

→ Abenaki: kaoz (from cows)

→ Maori: kau

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws
Proto-Germanic *kōz
Proto-West Germanic *kō
Old English cū
Middle English cou
English cow
Inherited from Middle English cou, cu, from Old English cū (“cow”), from Proto-West Germanic *kō, from Proto-Germanic *kōz (“cow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cow”).
Cognate with Sanskrit गौ (gow), Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs), Persian گاو (gâv)), Latvian govs (“cow”), Proto-Slavic *govędo (Serbo-Croatian govedo, Russian говядина (govjadina, “beef”), Scots coo (“cow”), North Frisian ko, kø (“cow”), West Frisian ko (“cow”), Dutch koe (“cow”), Low German Koh, Koo, Kau (“cow”), German Kuh (“cow”), Swedish ko (“cow”), Norwegian ku (“cow”), Icelandic kýr (“cow”), Latin bōs (“ox, bull, cow”), Armenian կով (kov, “cow”). Doublet of beef.
The plural kine is from Middle English kyne, kyn, kuin, kiin, kien (“cows”), either a double plural of Middle English ky, kye (“cows”), equivalent to modern kye + -en, or inherited from Old English cȳna (“cows', of cows”), genitive plural of cū (“cow”).

etymon

the cow knows not the worth of its tail till it loses it

why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free

The whole herd is out to pasture right now — the cows, calves, and heifers are out back, and the bulls are down by the creek.

(strictly) An adult female of the species Bos taurus, especially one that has calved.

en:female of any of various mammalian species

(biology) A female member of other large species of mammal, including the bovines, moose, whales, seals, hippos, rhinos, manatees, and elephants.

kýr

of bovines, manatees, whales; also of reindeer and elk/moose

noozhez

of moose, mare, deer, elk, carabou, hind

Colonel Red Reeder, West Point Second Classman
An assistant manager, wearing the stripes of a cadet corporal, walked up to Coach Smith. Clint knew him, a Cow from B-l. What had he done to become so outstanding that the Tacs made him a corporal?

When I was a cow (junior) at West Point, I dated a plebe (freshman), which is considered fraternization in the cadet realm.

2023, James E Parco, David A Levy, Daphne DePorres, Attitudes Aren't Free: A Call to Action, page 242:

(US, military, slang) A third-year cadet at West Point.


dar

nl-noun

dar m (plural darren, diminutive darretje n)

darren (plural)
darretje (diminutive neuter)

Inherited from Middle Dutch darne, by metathesis from dorne, from Old Dutch *drān, from Proto-West Germanic *drānu, from Proto-Germanic *drēnuz.

drone (non-working male bee, ant or wasp)


tigre

fro-noun

tigre oblique singular, m (oblique plural tigres, nominative singular tigres, nominative plural tigre)

tigre oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
tigres (oblique plural)
tigres (nominative singular)
tigre (nominative plural)


tigre

tigre oblique singular, f (oblique plural tigres, nominative singular tigre, nominative plural tigres)

tigre oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
tigres (oblique plural)
tigre (nominative singular)
tigres (nominative plural)


cane

Inherited from Middle French cane (“duck, female duck”, literally “loater, little boat”), from Old French cane (“boat, ship; waterbird”), from Middle Low German kane (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *kaną (“boat, vessel”). See Proto-Germanic *kanô (“boat, vessel”). Cognate with Norwegian kane (“swan-shaped vessel”), Dutch kaan (“boat”), German Kahn (“boat”), Old Norse kæna (“little boat”), and possibly Old Norse knǫrr (“ship”) (whence also Late Latin canardus (“ship”), from Germanic; and Old English cnearr (“merchant ship”)). Related to French canot (“little boat”).


woman

women (plural)
womxn (alternative)
womyn (alternative)
womxn (alternative)
womyn (alternative)
wymyn (alternative)
womin (alternative)
wommon (alternative)
womon (alternative)
wimin (alternative)
wimmin (alternative)
wimmen (alternative)
wymmyn (alternative)
weoman (alternative)
whoman (alternative)
wimen (alternative)
womans (alternative)
womens (alternative)

desc

Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: uman

Aukan: uman

Jamaican Creole: ooman

Krio: uman

Sranan Tongo: uma; oema (superseded)

Torres Strait Creole: oman

→ Japanese: ウーマン (ūman)

→ Korean: 우먼 (umeon)

→ Volapük: vom

From Middle English womman, wimman, wifman, from Old English wīfmann (“woman”, literally “female person”), a compound of wīf (“woman, female”, whence English wife) + mann (“person, human being”, whence English man). For details on the pronunciation and spelling history, see the usage notes below.
Cognate with Scots woman, weman (“woman”), Saterland Frisian Wieuwmoanske (“female person, female human, woman”). Similar constructions can be found in West Frisian frommes (“woman, girl”) (from frou and minske, literally "woman human").
A few alternative spellings (see below) respell the term so as not to contain man.

com

whence English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">wife</i>

whence English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">man</i>

cog

one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen

Listen, Holly. Thou art a good and honest man, and I fain would spare thee; but, oh! it is so hard for woman to be merciful.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Balance Turns”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 191:

“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

I am Woman, hear me roar / In numbers too big to ignore

1972, Helen Reddy, I Am Woman, first line:

For if modern woman is so intent on keeping her surname alive, why not demand it be passed along to her children?

1997, Bob Grant, Let's Be Heard, page 42:

Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture.

2011, Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In, page 109:

(collective) All female humans collectively; womankind.


king

kings (plural)
kyng (alternative)
kynge (alternative)
kinge (alternative)

Tok Pisin: king

desc

⇒ American Sign Language: K@Shoulder K@Abdomen

→ Burmese: ကင် (kang)

→ Isubu: kinge

→ Japanese: キング (kingu)

→ Korean: 킹 (king)

→ Maori: kingi

→ Marshallese: kiin̄

→ Thai: คิง (king)

From Middle English king, kyng, from Old English cyng, cyning (“king”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuning, from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz, *kunungaz (“king”), equivalent to kin + -ing. Doublet of cyning and knez.
Cognate with Scots keeng (“king”), North Frisian köning (“king”), West Frisian kening (“king”), Dutch koning (“king”), Low German Koning, Köning (“king”), German König (“king”), Danish konge (“king”), Norwegian konge, Swedish konung, kung (“king”), Icelandic konungur, kóngur (“king”), Polish ksiądz (“priest”), Russian князь (knjazʹ, “prince”), Old Church Slavonic кънѧѕь (kŭnędzĭ), Romanian chinez, Finnish kuningas (“king”), Estonian kuningas, Ingrian kunigas, Karelian kuninkas, Livvi kuńingas, Ludian kuńingas, Veps kuningaz, Võro kuning and Votic kunikaz. Eclipsed non-native Middle English roy (“king”) (Early Modern English roy), borrowed from Old French roi, rei, rai (“king”).
The verb is inherited from Middle English kyngen, *kingen (“To perform the duties of a king”), itself from the noun king, kyng.

Audio — the king

акрал

a male of a royal family who is the supreme ruler of his nation

in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

Henry VIII was the king of England from 1509 to 1547.

A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.


queen

queens (plural)
queene (alternative)
quene (alternative)
queyne (alternative)

Tok Pisin: kwin

⇒ American Sign Language: G@Shoulder-PalmDown G@Abdomen-PalmDown

→ Burmese: ကွင်း (kwang:)

→ German: Queen

→ Japanese: クイーン (kuīn), クィーン (kwīn)

→ Korean: 퀸 (kwin)

→ Marshallese: kwiin

→ Sikaiana: kuini

→ Spanish: cuina

→ Thai: ควีน (kwiin)

From Middle English quene, queen, cwen, from Old English cwēn (“queen”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwāni, from Proto-Germanic *kwēniz (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷénh₂s (“woman”).
Cognate with Scots queen, wheen (“queen”), Old Saxon quān ("wife"; > Middle Low German quene (“elderly woman”)), Dutch kween (“woman past child-bearing age”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Norwegian kvinne (“woman”), Danish kvinde (“woman”), Icelandic kvon (“wife”), Gothic 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 (qēns, “wife”), Norwegian dialectal kvån (“wife”). Related to and possibly merged with and/or absorbed some senses of English quean, from Middle English quene, from Old English cwene (“woman; female serf, quean”), see quean. Generally eclipsed non-native Middle English regina (“queen”), borrowed from Latin rēgīna (“queen”) (see Modern English regina). Doublet of quean and gyne.

gloss

"wife"; > Middle Low German <i class="Latn mention" lang="gml">quene</i> (“elderly woman”)

cog

[…] and yet I will not ſay but amongſt duſt there is Pearle found, and in hard rockes Dyamonds of great value, and ſo amongſt many women there are ſome good, as that gracious and glorious Queene of all woman kinde the Virgin Mary the mother of al bliſſe, what wun her honour, but an humble minde and her paines and loue vnto our Sauiour Chriſt.

1620, Thomas Tell-Troth [pseudonym of Joseph Swetnam], The Araignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women: Or the Vanitie of Them, Choose You Whether, London, published 1807, retrieved 2022-01-14:

A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.

(Christianity) The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).


jack

→ Brazilian Portuguese: jegue

→ European Portuguese: jaque

Transferred use of the personal name Jack.
(cricket: eleventh batsman): An allusion to the jack in playing cards, which follows the 10.

náłbiil bijaadbee dahnádidlohí

device for raising and supporting a heavy object

jekker

military: coarse medieval coat of defense

(chiefly US) A male ass, especially when kept for breeding.

Usually a jack that makes male flowers has only one main leaf (right), while female plants have two. […] The specific taxonomy of Jack-in-the Pulpit, a member of the Arum Family (Araceae), is rather up in the air. Some botanists believe all jacks are just one species, Arisaema triphyllum, while others claim there are as many as three: A. triphyllum, A. atrorubens, and A. stewardsonii.

2003 May 1, “Is that “Jack” in the Pulpit”, in Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History:

In fact, most male Jacks are under 14 inches tall. Most Jacks over 14 inches tend to be Jills.

2013 January 6, “Jack-in-the-Pulpit, and Jill”, in Eat the Weeds:

(colloquial) Plant in the genus Arisaema, also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit, and capitalized Jack.

(apparently does not occur standalone for the genus per se) Plant of the genus Emex, also considered synonymous to Rumex, if not then containing two species lesser jack and little jack for Emex spinosa syn. Rumex spinosus, Australian English three-corner jack and prickly jack for Emex australis syn. Rumex hypogaeus.


cock

en-noun

cock (countable and uncountable, plural cocks)

Sranan Tongo: kaka

Tok Pisin: kok

→ Thai: ก๊อก (gɔ́k, “tap”)

From Middle English cok, from Old English coc, cocc (“cock, male bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“cock”), probably of onomatopoeic origin.
Cognate with Middle Dutch cocke (“cock, male bird”) and Old Norse kokkr ("cock"; whence Danish kok (“cock”), dialectal Swedish kokk (“cock”)). Reinforced by Old French coc, also of imitative origin. The sense "penis" is attested since at least the 1610s, with the compound pillicock (“penis”) attested since 1325.

onomatopoeic

onomatopoeic


duck

en-noun

duck (countable and uncountable, plural ducks or duck)

ducks (plural)
duck (plural)
ducke (alternative)

desctree

Sranan Tongo: doksi (from the plural)
→ Dutch: doks

From Middle English doke, ducke, dukke, dokke, douke, duke, from Old English duce, dūce (“duck”, literally “dipper, diver, ducker”), from Old English *dūcan (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūkan, from Proto-Germanic *dūkaną (“to dive, bend down”). See verb above.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots duik, duke, dook (“duck”), Danish dukand, dykand (“sea-duck”), Swedish dykfågel (“a diver, diving bird, plungeon”), Dutch duiker (“diver, dipper, plunger”), German Low German Düker (“diver”), German Taucher (“diver, plunger”).
For the meaning development compare with Russian ныро́к (nyrók, “pochard”) connected with ныря́ть (nyrjátʹ, “to dive”).

cog

could eat the arse out of a low flying duck

could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck

could eat the crutch from a low flying duck

don't teach your grandmother how to milk ducks

Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.


pen

From Middle English penne, from Anglo-Norman penne, from Old French penne, from Latin penna (“feather”), from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to rush, fly”) (from which petition). Proto-Indo-European base also root of *petra-, from which Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing”) (whence pterodactyl), Sanskrit पत्रम् (patram, “wing, feather”), Old Church Slavonic перо (pero, “pen”), Old Norse fjǫðr, Old English feðer (Modern English feather); note the /p/ → /f/ Germanic sound change.
Doublet of panne, penna, and pinna. See feather and πέτομαι (pétomai) for more.

cog

you don't dip your pen in the company inkwell

you don't dip your pen in the company's ink

a dab pen; a wax pen

Short for vapor pen (“electronic cigarette”).


so

so (indefinite nominative singular)
sos (genitive indefinite singular)
son (definite nominative singular)
sons (definite genitive singular)
sor (indefinite nominative plural)
sors (genitive indefinite plural)
sorna (definite nominative plural)
sornas (definite genitive plural)

From Old Swedish sō (Old Icelandic/Norwegian sýr), from Old East Norse *sōʀ, from Proto-Germanic *sūz, from Proto-Indo-European *sū-. Compare the identical ko (Old Icelandic/Norwegian kýr, Old Swedish kō).


matka

pl-noun

matka f (diminutive mateczka or mateńka or matuchna or (dialectal) matynka or matusia or matuś, augmentative matczysko, related adjective matczyny)

mateczka (diminutive)
mateńka (diminutive)
matuchna (diminutive)
matynka (dialectal diminutive)
matusia (diminutive)
matuś (diminutive)
matczysko (augmentative)
matczyny (adjective)

Inherited from Old Polish matka. By surface analysis, mać + -ka.

(countable, zoology) queen (female insect that begets others)


krowa

krowa f (diminutive krówka, augmentative krówsko, related adjective krowi)

krówka (diminutive)
krówsko (augmentative)
krowi (adjective)
krowa (nominative singular)
krowy (nominative plural)
krowy (genitive singular)
krów (genitive plural)
krowie (dative singular)
krowom (dative plural)
krowę (accusative singular)
krowy (accusative plural)
krową (instrumental singular)
krowami (instrumental plural)
krowie (locative singular)
krowach (locative plural)
krowo (singular vocative)
krowy (plural vocative)

Coordinate term: byk

cow (adult female of the species Bos taurus, especially one that has calved)

cow (female member of other large species of mammal, including the bovines, moose, whales, seals, hippos, rhinos, manatees, and elephants)

(historical, informal) Nebelwerfer (World War II German series of mortar weapons)


chłopak

chłopiec (diminutive)
chłopak (nominative singular)
chłopacy (nominative plural)
chłopaki (derogatory nominative plural)
chłopaka (genitive singular)
chłopaków (genitive plural)
chłopakowi (dative singular)
chłopakom (dative plural)
chłopaka (accusative singular)
chłopaków (accusative plural)
chłopakiem (instrumental singular)
chłopakami (instrumental plural)
chłopaku (locative singular)
chłopakach (locative plural)
chłopaku (singular vocative)
chłopacy (plural vocative)
chłopoka (alternative)

From chłop + -ak. Originally from the Mazovian dialect, as there is a tendency to use the suffix -ak instead of -ę to create young nouns (compare Polish dziecię vs Polish dzieciak, źrebię vs źrebak). First attested in 1731.

ref

Karol Mikołaj Juniewicz (1731) Refleksye duchowne ná mądry krolá Sálomoná sentyment oraz ná krotkość żyćia ludzkiego, śmierć, sąd straszny, wieczność szczęśliwą y nieszczęśliwą […]  (in Polish), page 42

boyfriend; boy (male romantic partner, usually not married)


pato

pt-noun

pato m (plural patos, feminine pata, feminine plural patas)

patos (plural)
pata (feminine)
patas (feminine plural)

Kabuverdianu: patu

→ Tok Pisin: pato

From Old Galician-Portuguese pato (“duck”), from Andalusian Arabic بَطّ (paṭṭ), from Arabic بَطّ (baṭṭ, “duck”). Cognate with Galician and Spanish pato and Swahili bata.


pata

pata (nominative singular)
paśe (dual nominative)
paty (nominative plural)
paty (genitive singular)
patowu (dual genitive)
patow (genitive plural)
paśe (dative singular)
patoma (dative dual)
patam (dative plural)
patu (accusative singular)
paśe (accusative dual)
paty (accusative plural)
patu (instrumental singular)
patoma (dual instrumental)
patami (instrumental plural)
paśe (locative singular)
patoma (dual locative)
patach (locative plural)

Cognate with Serbo-Croatian pȁtka (“duck”).


goose

en-noun

goose (countable and uncountable, plural geese)

PIE word
 *ǵʰh₂éns
From Middle English goos, gos, from Old English gōs, from Proto-West Germanic *gans, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.
Cognates
Compare West Frisian goes, North Frisian göis (also Fering-Öömrang dialect North Frisian gus; Sölring dialect North Frisian Guus; Heligoland dialect North Frisian gus), Low German Goos, Low German Gans, Dutch gans, German Gans, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian gås, Icelandic gæs, Irish gé, Latin ānser, Latvian zùoss, Russian гусь (gusʹ), Albanian gatë, Ancient Greek χήν (khḗn), Avestan 𐬰𐬁 (zā), Sanskrit हंस (haṃsá).
* The tailor's iron is so called from the likeness of the handle to the neck of a goose.

kill the goose that lays the golden eggs

what's good for the goose is good for the gander

what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

Ganders and geese are at their best for stock from two to ten years old. They live to a great age—it is stated to thirty or more years—but after ten years they cannot be reckoned upon as reliable assets on a farm. Two years old is the best age to mate them, making up pens of a gander and two or three geese at the New Year. It is difficult sometimes to distinguish ganders from geese. A practical man is, however, rarely mistaken.

1902, Lewis Wright, “Geese and Swans”, in The New Book of Poultry […], London, […]: Cassell and Company, Limited, page 560, column 1:


chat

Louisiana Creole: sha

Inherited from Middle French chat, from Old French chat, from Late Latin cattus.

il ne faut pas réveiller le chat qui dort

quand le chat n’est pas là, les souris dansent

— Est-ce un chat ou une chatte ? » demanda Jean.
 Sophie ne se prononça point, Alice devint rouge et dit en riant :
« C’est un chat !
— En êtes-vous sûre ? demanda Jean.
— Ah bien! fit Alice, pour sûr ! »

1896, Paul Margueritte, “Une flaque”, in L’eau qui dort, Paris: Armand Colin et cⁱᵉ, […], section II, pages 102–103:

"Is it a tomcat or a girl cat?" asked Jean.
 Sophie not having spoken, Alice turned red and said, laughing:
 "It's a tomcat!"
 "Are you sure?" asked Jean.
 "Of course," said Alice, "for sure!"


suka

pl-noun

suka f (diminutive suczka, related adjective suczy)

suczka (diminutive)
suczy (adjective)
suka (nominative singular)
suki (nominative plural)
suki (genitive singular)
suk (genitive plural)
suce (dative singular)
sukom (dative plural)
sukę (accusative singular)
suki (accusative plural)
suką (instrumental singular)
sukami (instrumental plural)
suce (locative singular)
sukach (locative plural)
suko (singular vocative)
suki (plural vocative)

→ Vilamovian: su̇ka

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sùka. Sense 3 from an association with pies (“dog, slang: cop”).


gallo

es-noun

gallo m (plural gallos, feminine gallina, feminine plural gallinas)

gallos (plural)
gallina (feminine)
gallinas (feminine plural)

rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin gallus (“rooster”).


gallo

megrim (genus Lepidorhombus, a kind of fish)

Papaver rhoeas
Papaver rhoeas#Translingual

(boxing) bantamweight (weight class ranging from 112 to 118 pounds)

voice crack (sudden, unintentional change in register, especially during puberty or while singing)


fire

en-verb

fire (third-person singular simple present fires, present participle firing, simple past and past participle fired)

fires (present singular third-person)
firing (participle present)
fired (participle past)
fired (past)
fire (infinitive)

From Middle English firen, fyren, furen, from Old English fȳrian (“to make a fire”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with Old Frisian fioria (“to light a fire”), Saterland Frisian fjuurje (“to fire”), Middle Dutch vûren, vueren, vieren (“to set fire”), Dutch vuren (“to fire, shoot”), Old High German fiuren (“to ignite, set on fire”), German feuern (“to fire”).

udløse

computer sciences, software engineering: to initiate an event


bull

en-noun

bull (countable and uncountable, plural bulls)

bear

investor who sells in anticipation of a fall in prices

From Middle English bole, bul, bule, from a conflation of Old English bula (“bull, steer”) and Old Norse boli, both from Proto-Germanic *bulô (“bull”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥no-, from *bʰel- (“to blow, swell up”). Cognate with West Frisian bolle, Dutch bul, German Low German Bull, German Bulle, Swedish bulla; also Old Irish ball (“limb”), Latin follis (“bellows, leather bag”), Thracian βόλινθος (“wild bull”), Macedonian вол (vol, "ox"), Slovene vol ("ox"), Albanian buall (“buffalo”) or related bolle (“testicles”), Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós, “penis”).

rozzer. See also Thesaurus:police officer


bull

a bull elephant

(attributive, of large mammals) Adult male.


кот

be-noun

кот • (kot) m animal (genitive ката́, nominative plural каты́, genitive plural като́ў, relational adjective каці́ны, diminutive ко́цік or като́к)

kot (romanization)
ката́ (genitive)
каты́ (nominative plural)
като́ў (genitive plural)
каці́ны (adjective relational)
ко́цік (diminutive)
като́к (diminutive)
кот (nominative singular)
каты́ (nominative plural)
ката́ (genitive singular)
като́ў (genitive plural)
кату́ (dative singular)
ката́м (dative plural)
ката́ (accusative singular)
като́ў (accusative plural)
като́м (instrumental singular)
ката́мі (instrumental plural)
каце́ (locative singular)
ката́х (locative plural)
каты́ (count-form plural)
kot (alternative)


кот

ru-noun+

кот • (kot) m anim (genitive кота́, nominative plural коты́, genitive plural кото́в, feminine ко́шка, relational adjective коша́чий, diminutive ко́тик or кото́к, augmentative коти́ще or котя́ра, pejorative коша́к)

kot (romanization)
кота́ (genitive)
коты́ (nominative plural)
кото́в (genitive plural)
ко́шка (feminine)
коша́чий (adjective relational)
ко́тик (diminutive)
кото́к (diminutive)
коти́ще (augmentative)
котя́ра (augmentative)
коша́к (pejorative)
ко́т (nominative singular)
коты́ (nominative plural)
кота́ (genitive singular)
кото́в (genitive plural)
коту́ (dative singular)
кота́м (dative plural)
кота́ (accusative singular)
кото́в (accusative plural)
кото́м (instrumental singular)
кота́ми (instrumental plural)
коте́ (prepositional singular)
кота́х (plural prepositional)
котъ (alternative)

Inherited from Old East Slavic котъ (kotŭ), from Proto-Slavic *kotъ.
Should be separated from коти́ться (kotítʹsja) (related to око́т (okót), catulus), the connection with this word is secondary.

inh+

кот в сапога́х

кот наплакал

Не всё коту́ ма́сленица, придёт и вели́кий пост.

All good things must come to an end; You have to take the rough with the smooth.

Ne vsjo kotú máslenica, pridjót i velíkij post.

купи́ть кота́ в мешке́


ball

en-noun

ball (countable and uncountable, plural balls)

→ Cantonese: 波 (bo¹)

→ Japanese: ボール (bōru)

→ Makah: ba·la

→ Yoruba: bọ́ọ̀lù

From Middle English bal, ball, balle, from an unattested Old English *beall, *bealla (“round object, ball”) or Old Norse bǫllr (“a ball”), both from Proto-Germanic *balluz, *ballô (“ball”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰol-n- (“ball, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell”). Cognate with Old Saxon ball, Dutch bal, Old High German bal, ballo (German Ball (“ball”); Ballen (“bale”)). Related forms in Romance are borrowings from Germanic. See also balloon, bale.

ампыл

object, generally spherical, used for playing games

туп

ballistics: a solid nonexplosive missile

cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey

The laxative alterative has not this advantage, the aloes, of which it is composed, being extremely bitter, and therefore requiring to be given in the form of a ball.

1842, James White, A compendium of the veterinary art:

(farriery, historical) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.


falcon

falcons (plural)
faulcon (alternative)
faucon (alternative)

From Middle English faucoun, falcon, faulcon, from Old French falcun, from Late Latin falcō (“falcon”), of Germanic origin, probably via Frankish *falkō (“falcon, hawk”), from Proto-Germanic *falkô (“falcon”), from Proto-Indo-European *pol̑- (“pale”), from *pel- (“fallow”).
Cognates
Cognate with Old English *fealca, fealcen (“falcon”), Dutch valk (“falcon, hawk”), German Falke (“falcon, hawk”), Norwegian and Swedish falk (“falcon”), Icelandic fálki (“falcon”), French faucon (“falcon”), Italian falco (“falcon”), Spanish halcón (“falcon”), Portuguese falcão (“falcon”), Latin falco (“falcon”), Lithuanian pálšas (“pale”), Latvian bāls (“pale”), Latgalian buolgs (“pale”). More at fallow.

Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.

(falconry) A female such bird, a male being a tiercel.


rooster

From roost + -er. In the regions where it is used, displaced cock through taboo avoidance.

Their other dish […] contain'd a number of roast fowls—half a dozen, we suppose, & all roosters at this season no doubt.

The produce of two hens and a cock, or rooster, as the Yankees term that bird.

1836, Catharine Parr Traill, The Backwoods of Canada, page 308:

Chalk a circle for a rooster.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 616:

(Canada, US, Kent, Australia, New Zealand) A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.


peacock

→ Hawaiian: pīkake
→ English: pikake

→ Maori: pīkake

From Middle English pecok, pekok, pocok, pacok, equivalent to pea (“peafowl; peacock”) + cock. Compare Old Norse páfugl (“peacock”, literally “pea-fowl”), and English peahen, peachick, etc.

cog

Coordinate term: turkeycock

The ſpring diſplaying her elegant taſte, the proud walk of the gold-feathered pheaſant, the light tread of the ſmall-hoofed hind, and the dancing of the ſtar-trained peacock, infuſed joy into the ſoul of the ſpectator of the aſtoniſhing works of the Creator.

1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page v:

A male peafowl, especially Pavo cristatus, notable for its brilliant iridescently ocellated tail.

A peafowl (of the genus Pavo or Afropavo), either male or female.

аԥса́ркәты

pheasant of one of the genera Pavo and Afropavo

(entomology) Any of various Asian species of papilionid butterflies of the genus Papilio.


ram

From Middle English ram, rom, ramme, from Old English ramm (“ram”), from Proto-Germanic *rammaz (“ram”), possibly from *rammaz (“strong”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Rom (“ram”), Dutch ram (“a male sheep”), German Ramm, Ramme (“ram”). Possibly akin also to Danish ram (“sharp; acrid; rank”), Swedish ram (“strong; perfect”), Faroese ramur (“strong; competent”), Icelandic rammur (“strong; sturdy”).

(zoology, agriculture) A male sheep, typically uncastrated.


ram

nl-noun

ram m (plural rammen, diminutive rammetje n, feminine ooi)

rammen (plural)
rammetje (diminutive neuter)
ooi (feminine)

Afrikaans: ram

From Middle Dutch ram (“a male sheep”), from Old Dutch *ram, of West-Germanic origin, possibly from Proto-Germanic *rammaz (“strong”). Cognate to English ram (“a male sheep”). The sense "battering ram" was borrowed as a semantic loan from Latin ariēs in Middle Dutch.


ram

rams (plural)
rame (alternative)
ramme (alternative)
rom (alternative)
rem (alternative)

English: ram

Scots: ram

From Old English ramm, from Proto-Germanic *rammaz.


Rom

From Old Frisian *ram, from Proto-Germanic *rammaz. Cognates include West Frisian raam and German Ramme.


pull

pulli (genitive)
pulli (partitive)
pull (nominative singular)
pullid (nominative plural)
pull (accusative nominative singular)
pullid (accusative nominative plural)
pulli (accusative genitive singular)
pullid (accusative genitive plural)
pulli (genitive singular)
pullide (genitive plural)
pulli (partitive singular)
pulle (partitive plural)
pullisid (partitive plural)
pulli (illative singular)
pullisse (illative singular)
pullidesse (illative plural)
pullesse (illative plural)
pullis (inessive singular)
pullides (inessive plural)
pulles (inessive plural)
pullist (elative singular)
pullidest (elative plural)
pullest (elative plural)
pullile (allative singular)
pullidele (allative plural)
pullele (allative plural)
pullil (adessive singular)
pullidel (adessive plural)
pullel (adessive plural)
pullilt (ablative singular)
pullidelt (ablative plural)
pullelt (ablative plural)
pulliks (singular translative)
pullideks (plural translative)
pulleks (plural translative)
pullini (singular terminative)
pullideni (plural terminative)
pullina (essive singular)
pullidena (essive plural)
pullita (abessive singular)
pullideta (abessive plural)
pulliga (comitative singular)
pullidega (comitative plural)

From Middle Low German bulle. First attested in 1648.

(by extension) any male animal, especially a moose


sog

From Dutch zog or zoog, dialectal variants of zeug, from Middle Dutch soge, suege, from Old Dutch *soga, from Proto-West Germanic *sugu.


roebuck

From Middle English roobukke; equivalent to roe + buck (“male deer”). Doublet of rhebok.

From the thick copse the roebucks bound,
The startled red-deer scuds the plain […]

1807, “Cadyow Castle”, in The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, volume 4, Walter Scott:


princess

From Middle English princesse, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman princesse, Old French princesse. By surface analysis, prince + -ess.

She did not cry long, however, for she was as brave as could be expected of a princess of her age.

1872, George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin:

A female member of a royal family other than a queen, especially a daughter or granddaughter of a monarch.

And running all with greedie ioyfulnesse / To faire Irena, at her feet did fall, / And her adored with due humblenesse, / As their true Liege and Princesse naturall […]

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

(now archaic) A female ruler or monarch; a queen.

Princess Grace was the Princess of Monaco.

The wife of a prince; the female ruler of a principality.

принцеса

wife of a prince; female ruler of a principality

בַּת לְמֶלֶכַּה

ḇát̬ ləmélékáh

A Bulgarian open-faced baked sandwich prepared with ground meat.


empress

empresses (plural)
emperess (alternative)
empresse (alternative)

From Middle English emperice, emperesse, from Anglo-Norman and Old French empereriz, from Latin imperatrix, equivalent to emperor + -ess. Doublet of imperatrix. Compare modern French impératrice.

Sit downe by her: adorned with my Crowne,
As if thou wert the Empreſſe of the world.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:

The female monarch (ruler) of an empire.


monarch

From Middle French monarque, from Late Latin monarcha, from Ancient Greek μονάρχης (monárkhēs), variant of μόναρχος (mónarkhos, “sole ruler”), from μόνος (mónos, “only”) + ἀρχός (arkhós, “leader”), equivalent to mono- + -arch.
* (butterfly): See monarch butterfly.

But I know the monarchs are close by, their orange-and-black wings folded, dusted, and baked by heat, ready to flee south.

2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 223:

Danaus plexippus
Danaus plexippus#Translingual

A monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) and others of genus Danaus, found primarily in North America.


mare

stud and gelding refer to adult male horses

Danish language
Dutch language
German language
Icelandic language
Middle English language
North Frisian language
Old English language
Proto-Germanic language
Proto-West Germanic language
Scots language
Swedish language
West Frisian language

From Middle English mare, mere, from Old English mīere (“female horse, mare”), from Proto-West Germanic *marhijā, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”), from *marhaz (“horse”).
Cognates
See also Scots mere, meir, mear (“mare”), North Frisian mar (“mare, horse”), West Frisian merje (“mare”), Dutch merrie (“mare”), Danish mær (“mare”), Swedish märr (“mare”), Icelandic meri (“mare”), German Mähre (“decrepit old horse”)), Old English mearh.

inh-lite

But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…].

1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

pony can refer to adult horses of either sex under a certain height


mare

Borrowed from Latin mare (“sea”). Doublet of mar and mere.

Kraken Mare (a lake of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan which is slightly larger than the Caspian Sea)

(planetology) On Saturn's moon Titan, any of several lakes which are large expanses of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.


stallion

From Middle English stalion, from Middle French estalon (whence modern French étalon), of Germanic origin, akin to stall. Displaced native Old English henġest.

An adult male horse.
A male horse kept primarily as a stud.


filly

From Old Norse fylja (whence Danish føl), related to foal. Cognate with Dutch veulen, German Fohlen.


colt

From Middle English colt, from Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Faroese koltur (“colt, foal”) Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, boy, lad”). Related to child.

der

The petty vices of boys are like the innocent kicks of colts, as yet imperfectly broken.

1857, Herman Melville, chapter XXII, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade:


ewe

From Middle English ewe, from Old English eowu, from Proto-West Germanic *awi, from Proto-Germanic *awiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”).
Cognates
See also Old English ēow (“sheep”), West Frisian ei, Dutch ooi, German Aue); also Old Irish oí, Latin ovis, Tocharian B ā(ᵤ)w, Lithuanian avìs (“ewe”), Russian овца́ (ovcá).

This twentie yeeres haue I bene with thee: thy ewes and thy ſhee goates haue not caſt their yong, and the rammes of thy flocke haue I not eaten.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 31:38, column 2:


ewe

ewen (plural)
awe (alternative)
eu (alternative)
ouwe (alternative)
yeue (alternative)
yowe (alternative)

English: ewe

Scots: yowe, yhow

Yola: yowe

Inherited from Old English eowu, from Proto-West Germanic *awi, from Proto-Germanic *awiz.

University of Michigan
w:University of Michigan


ewe

fro-noun

ewe oblique singular, f (oblique plural ewes, nominative singular ewe, nominative plural ewes)

ewe oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
ewes (oblique plural)
ewe (nominative singular)
ewes (nominative plural)
ive (alternative)
iewe (alternative)


harem

harem (nominative singular)
haremy (nominative plural)
haremu (genitive singular)
haremów (genitive plural)
haremowi (dative singular)
haremom (dative plural)
harem (accusative singular)
haremy (accusative plural)
haremem (instrumental singular)
haremami (instrumental plural)
haremie (locative singular)
haremach (locative plural)
haremie (singular vocative)
haremy (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حرم (harem), from Arabic حَرَم (ḥaram). Doublet of haram.

bor+

harem (group of female animals (cows) herded and controlled by a male)


hart

en-noun

hart (countable and uncountable, plural hart or harts)

From Middle English hert, from Old English heorot (“stag”), from Proto-West Germanic *herut, from Proto-Germanic *herutaz (compare Dutch hert, German Hirsch, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish hjort), from Pre-Germanic *kerudos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”).
Cognates
Compare Welsh carw (“deer”), Latin cervus (“deer”), cervīx (“nape of the neck”), Lithuanian kárvė (“cow”), Russian коро́ва (koróva, “cow”), Ancient Greek κόρυδος (kórudos, “crested lark”), κορυφή (koruphḗ, “summit, crown of the head”), κορύπτω (korúptō, “to butt with horns”), Avestan 𐬯𐬭𐬏 (srū), 𐬯𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬁 (sruuā, “horn; claw, talon”), Sanskrit शरभ (śarabhá, “mythical antelope”). More at horn.

cog

Coordinate term: hind (the female)

With milke-white Hartes vpon an Iuorie ſled,
Thou ſhalt be drawen amidſt the froſen Pooles,
And ſcale the yſie mountaines lofty tops:
Which with thy beautie will be soone reſolu’d.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

Then, finding Herds of luſtie Deare, / She Huntreſſe-like the Hart purſues; […]

1612, Michael Drayton, “The thirteenth Song”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, page 213:

(countable) A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.


牛

Wutunhua: nek

/n̠ʲi̯əu̯¹³/

/n̠ʲi̯əu̯¹³/

Pictogram (象形) of a bull's head.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋwa.
;"awesome"

傲人

nowadays especially of breasts, body curve

細漢偷挽匏，大漢偷牽牛 / 细汉偷挽匏，大汉偷牵牛

sè-hàn thau bán pû, tōa-hàn thau khan gû

牛屄

牛人

(Mainland China, Mandarin, slang) awesome; powerful

Twenty-Eight Mansions
w:Twenty-Eight Mansions

(～宿) (Chinese astronomy) Ox (one of Twenty-Eight Mansions)

(physics) Short for 牛頓／牛顿 (niúdùn, “newton”).

(Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) Short for 火牛 (“transformer”). (Classifier: 隻／只 c)


牛

牛 (canonical)
gyū (romanization)
giu (romanization)
ぎう (hiragana historical)

From Middle Chinese 牛 (ngjuw, “cow”). Compare Hokkien 牛 (giû / ngiû).


牛

From Proto-Ryukyuan *usi, from Proto-Japonic *usi.


bullet

en-noun

bullet (countable and uncountable, plural bullets)

From Middle English bullet (“an official tag or badge of registration or identification”), from Old French bullete, diminutive of boule (“ball”). Later influenced by Middle French boulette and French boulet.

inh

Nakamura is a different animal at 15-minute rapid and five-minute blitz and even more so at one-minute bullet, and in this match he adopted a psychological approach which paid off brilliantly.

2020 August 21, Leonard Barden, “Chess: Carlsen fights back from brink to overcome Nakamura in 38-game epic”, in The Guardian:

Carlsen also has been engaging in online marathons of "bullet chess," exactly the kind of attention-disrupting, energy-draining stunt contenders are supposed to avoid. In a bullet game, each player has only one minute for all the moves. The pace is so rapid the games are hard to watch, much less play.

2021 November 24, Tyler Cowen, “Chess Is an Esport Now. Get Used to It.”, in The Washington Post:

Even today, when they're home, the siblings indulge in a friendly game or two. "We love playing bullet games. It's a format where we make really quick moves," he says, pausing to add, "Think of it like a super over in cricket."

2022 July 27, Srinivasa Ramanujam, “'Feels like a festival': Praggnanandhaa on Chess Olympiad and meeting Rajinikanth”, in The Hindu:

(chess, uncountable) Short for bullet chess.

(Ireland, particularly in Northern Ireland) The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.


bullet

—Chicago boasts of a citizen of fine discrimination and delicacy, who, riding in the suburbs with his best girl, passed a stable in the door of which stood a couple of calves. "See," said the young lady, "those two cute little cowlets." "Those are not cowlets, Araminta; they are bullets."

1886, Hamilton Literary Magazine, Clippings, page 110:

“I am not sure a compilation of odds and ends should be called a ‘book.’ Perhaps ‘booklet’ would be the better designation. My daughter, when quite young, once spoke of a heifer calf she saw grazing on the rim of the road as a ‘cowlet.’ In reality, the wayside animal was a ‘bullet.’ Though this book, or booklet, isn’t even calf-bound, the analogy should have been close enough to make me wary of jumping to a conclusion. However, it is too late now.

1937, Quarterly Bulletin: The Historical Society of Northwestern Ohio, page 17:

YES — imagine, if you can, that all human beings are cows and or bulls for just one day (I just can’t stand the thoughts of being a cow for more than one day). SO — lets^([sic]) take the cow and bull side of the question first. REMEMBER — you are a cow or bull. Mrs. Cow has been home all day busy getting the cotton seed meal and hulls ready for dinner, tending to the little cowlets and bullets and baking a bale of hay.

1959, C. B. Kitchens, X-syrps from the Trickem News Chronic, page 5:

> Correct. No other animals drink cow's milk but cows! / Cows drink milk? Maybe their little cowlets and bullets (future steerlets) do; but I have yet to see a cow drink milk. Other animals love cow milk. My dog, the barn cats up the road.

2013 November 20, Gorio, “Re: Milk, redefined. What do you think about this????”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet), message-ID <Gorio.cd28428.923639@foodbanter.com>:


男

From Proto-Ryukyuan *weke + *-ga (“diminutive suffix”).


男

Possibly from Japanese 男 (otoko, “man”).


男

男 (canonical)
yinga (romanization)
inga (romanization)
いぃんがゐんが (hiragana)


ruin

nl-noun

ruin m (plural ruinen, diminutive ruintje n)

ruinen (plural)
ruintje (diminutive neuter)

From Middle Dutch rûun. Cognate with Middle Low German rûne, Middle High German rūn. Further origin unknown; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(H)rewH- (“to dig out, rip off”).


dame

dames (plural)
damme (alternative)
dam (alternative)

English: dame; dam

Scots: dame, deem; dam

From Old French dame, from Latin domina.

lady (high-ranking or noble woman):
abbess (governor of a nunnery)

(rare) A female anchorite (with servants)

lady (high-ranking or noble woman):
A female anchorite (with servants)

A mother (of humans, animals, or plants)


mot

nl-noun

mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)

motten (plural)
motje (diminutive neuter)

From Middle Low German mutte, perhaps ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *muþraz (“to be dirty, wet”).


boc

Pre-Roman, possibly from Old High German boc, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ-.


boc

Dutch: bok (see there for further descendants)

Limburgish: bók

West Flemish: buk


boc

head

boc m (genitive buic, nominative plural buic)

buic (genitive)
buic (nominative plural)
boc (nominative singular)
bocc (nominative singular)
boc (dual nominative)
bocc (dual nominative)
buic (nominative plural)
buicc (nominative plural)
buic (singular vocative)
buicc (singular vocative)
boc (dual vocative)
bocc (dual vocative)
buccu (plural vocative)
boc (accusative singular)
bocc (accusative singular)
boc (accusative dual)
bocc (accusative dual)
buccu (accusative plural)
buic (genitive singular)
buicc (genitive singular)
boc (dual genitive)
bocc (dual genitive)
boc (genitive plural)
bocc (genitive plural)
buc (dative singular)
bucc (dative singular)
bocaib (dative dual)
bocaib (dative plural)
boc
mboc
bocc (alternative)

Irish: boc

Scottish Gaelic: boc

Ba bés leusom do·bertis dá boc leu dochum tempuil, ⁊ no·léicthe indala n‑ái fon díthrub co pecad in popuil, ⁊ do·bertis maldachta foir, ⁊ n⟨o⟩·oircthe didiu and ó popul tar cenn a pecthae ind aile.

It was a custom with them that two he-goats were brought by them to the temple, and one of the two of them was let go to the wilderness with the sin of the people, and curses were put upon him, and thereupon the other was slain there by the people for their sins.


boc

boc m (genitive singular buic, plural buic)

Inherited from Middle Irish boc, from Old Irish boc, poc(c) (“he-goat”), from Proto-Celtic *bukkos.


stud

From Middle English stood, stod, from Old English stōd, from Proto-West Germanic *stōd, from Proto-Germanic *stōdą. Cognate with Middle Low German stōt, German Stute, Dutch stoet and Old Norse stóð.

siitoseläin

animal registered and retained for breeding

A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.

Well, I'll tell you the truth now. I ain't a for-real cowboy, but I am one hell of a stud!

1969, Waldo Salt, Midnight Cowboy, spoken by Joe Buck (Jon Voight):

Maverick, you big stud… Take me to bed or lose me forever.

1986, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., Top Gun (motion picture), spoken by Charlie (Kelly McGillis):

Wow, Julia! Sounds like to me like you got your pick of any man in this room to dance with so I want you to take your time and find amongst all these young studs here tonight the coolest, most un-losery guy in the bunch

1998, Tim Herlihy, The Wedding Singer, spoken by Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler):

Those soap-opera studs and studettes sliding between satin sheets in the afternoon?

1999 December 16, Mark Wolf, “The V-chip has arrived with little fanfare”, in The Coshocton Tribune:

(colloquial) A sexually attractive, promiscuous male.


taurus

la-noun

taurus m (genitive taurī); second declension

taurī (genitive)
taurus (nominative singular)
taurī (nominative plural)
taurī (genitive singular)
taurōrum (genitive plural)
taurō (dative singular)
taurīs (dative plural)
taurum (accusative singular)
taurōs (accusative plural)
taurō (ablative singular)
taurīs (ablative plural)
taure (singular vocative)
taurī (plural vocative)
tarvus (alternative)
tarvos (alternative)

Aromanian: tavru

Asturian: toru

Catalan: toro

Corsican: toru

→ English: Taurus

French: taureau

Friulian: taur

Ido: tauro

Interlingua: tauro

Italian: toro

Norman: touothé

Occitan: taur

Old French: tor

desctree

Old Galician-Portuguese: touro
Galician: touro
Portuguese: touro, toiro

Romanian: taur

Romansch: taur

Sardinian: trau

Sicilian: tàuru, tàvuru

Spanish: toro (see there for further descendants)

Venetan: toro

Walloon: torea

[ˈt̪äu̯rʊs̠]

From Proto-Italic *tauros, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.


taureau

Inherited from Old French torel, a derivation of tor, taur, from Latin taurus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.


dam

Variant of dame. Doublet of domina and donna.

More dear […] than younglings to their dam.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 52:

The dam runs lowing up and down, / Looking the way her harmless young one went.

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

Hunters assure us, that to chuse the best dog, and which they purpose to keepe from out a litter of other young whelps, there is no better meane than the damme herselfe[…].

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

she / Resolved that Juan should be quite a paragon, / And worthy of the noblest pedigree / (His sire was from Castile, his dam from Aragon)[…].

The sky was cloudless—the moon rolled across the surface like a lamb searching for its dam.

1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, page 112:

Female parent, mother, generally regarding breeding of animals.


dam

From Proto-Celtic *damos, from Proto-Indo-European *dm̥h₂-ó- (“bull”) (compare Albanian dem (“bullock”), Ancient Greek δάμαλος (dámalos, “calf”)), from *demh₂- (“to tame”) (compare Old Irish daimid (“to allow, give in”), Latin domō, English tame).

hind, cow (old feminine form of previous)


kana

kana (nominative singular)
kanat (nominative plural)
kanan (genitive singular)
kannoin (genitive plural)
kannaa (partitive singular)
kanoja (partitive plural)
kannaa (illative singular)
kannoi (illative plural)
kanas (inessive singular)
kanois (inessive plural)
kanast (elative singular)
kanoist (elative plural)
kanalle (allative singular)
kanoille (allative plural)
kanal (adessive singular)
kanoil (adessive plural)
kanalt (ablative singular)
kanoilt (ablative plural)
kanaks (singular translative)
kanoiks (plural translative)
kananna (essive singular)
kannaan (essive singular)
kanoinna (essive plural)
kannoin (essive plural)
kanant (exessive singular)
kanoint (exessive plural)
kana (nominative singular)
kanat (nominative plural)
kanan (genitive singular)
kannoin (genitive plural)
kannaa (partitive singular)
kannooja (partitive plural)
kannaa (illative singular)
kannoi (illative plural)
kanas (inessive singular)
kanois (inessive plural)
kanast (elative singular)
kanoist (elative plural)
kanalle (allative singular)
kanoille (allative plural)
kanal (adessive singular)
kanoil (adessive plural)
kanalt (ablative singular)
kanoilt (ablative plural)
kanaks (singular translative)
kanoiks (plural translative)
kannaan (essive singular)
kannoin (essive plural)
kannaant (exessive singular)
kannoint (exessive plural)

From Proto-Finnic *kana. Cognates include Finnish kana and Estonian kana.

Kana, ka-ka-ka, na, mama, kana.

1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 6:

A hen, cluck cluck cluck, here, mommy, a hen.

Kana kaakatta. Sika röhkää.

1936, V. I. Junus, P. L. Maksimov, Inkeroisin keelen oppikirja alkuşkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 4:

Kanan äänee jooksi pertist Darja-ämmä.

1937, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 80:

Granny Darja ran out of the cottage towards the sound of the hen.


meri

head

meri (definite accusative meriyi, plural meriler)

meriyi (accusative definite)
meriler (plural)

From Armenian մարի (mari, “hen, female of any bird”).

bor

(dialect, Elazığ, Malatya, Kahramanmaraş) female partridge


麚

Wang (1982) relates this word to 豭 (OC *kraː, “pig”), 羖 (OC *klaːʔ, “(black) ram”), and 牯 (OC *kaːʔ, “male bovine”). See 豭 (jiā) for more.


vache

Coordinate term: bôf m


vache

Haitian Creole: vach

Inherited from Middle French and Old French vache, from Latin vacca.

chacun son métier, les vaches seront bien gardées

parler français comme une vache espagnole


vache

C’est vache!


dash

sq-noun

dash m (plural desh, definite dashi, definite plural deshtë)

desh (plural)
dashi (definite)
deshtë (definite plural)

Potentially from Early Proto-Albanian *dauša, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰows-o-s (compare English deer, Lithuanian daũsos (“upper air; heaven”)).


toro

Inherited from Old Catalan toro, from Latin taurus. Directly inherited from Latin, despite the final vowel. Cognate with Occitan taur. Old Catalan also had a form taur, which was borrowed from Latin.


toro

Inherited from Classical Latin taurus, from Proto-Italic *tauros, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros. Doublet of tauro, which is a learned borrowing.

Qual è quel toro che si slaccia in quella / c’ ha ricevuto già ’l colpo mortale, / che gir non sa, ma qua e là saltella […]

1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 22–24; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

Just like a bull who breaks free, after having already received the fatal blow, cannot escape, and just jumps around […]

[…] il pastor, a cui il fier lupo ha tolto / Il più bel toro del cornuto armento

1475, Angelo Poliziano, “Libro I”, in Stanze de messer Angelo Poliziano cominciate per la giostra del magnifico Giuliano di Pietro de Medici, Turin, section 66, lines 3–4; collected in Poemetti italiani, volume 1, publ. Michel Angelo Morano, 1797, page 63:

[…] the shepherd, from whom the fierce wolf has taken the best bull of the horned herd


toro

Borrowed from Spanish toro, from Latin taurus, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.


toro

(colloquial) forklift, lift truck, jitney, fork truck (a small industrial vehicle with a power-operated fork-like pronged platform that can be raised and lowered for insertion under a load, often on pallets, to be lifted and moved)


toro

Borrowed from Spanish toro, from Latin taurus. Doublet of Tawro.


uve

uve (nominative singular)
uvveet (nominative plural)
uvveen (genitive singular)
uvvein (genitive plural)
uvetta (partitive singular)
uvveita (partitive plural)
uvveesse (illative singular)
uvveisse (illative plural)
uvvees (inessive singular)
uvveis (inessive plural)
uvveest (elative singular)
uvveist (elative plural)
uvveelle (allative singular)
uvveille (allative plural)
uvveel (adessive singular)
uvveil (adessive plural)
uvveelt (ablative singular)
uvveilt (ablative plural)
uvveeks (singular translative)
uvveiks (plural translative)
uvveenna (essive singular)
uvveen (essive singular)
uvveinna (essive plural)
uvvein (essive plural)
uvveent (exessive singular)
uvveint (exessive plural)

From Proto-Finnic *ubëh. Cognates include dialectal Finnish uve and Veps ubeh.


bitch

en-noun

bitch (countable and uncountable, plural bitches)

bitches (plural)
betch (alternative)
biatch (alternative)
biotch (alternative)
beatch (alternative)
beotch (alternative)
bih (alternative)
binch (alternative)
bish (alternative)
biyatch (alternative)
biyotch (alternative)
beeyatch (alternative)
beeyotch (alternative)
bizatch (alternative)
biz-atch (alternative)
biznatch (alternative)
b-word (alternative)
rhymes-with-rich (alternative)

→ Dutch: bitch

→? German: Betze, Bätze, Petze

→ French: bitch

From Middle English biche, bicche, from Old English biċċe, from Proto-West Germanic *bikkjā, from Proto-Germanic *bikjǭ (compare Norwegian bikkje (“dog”), Old Danish bikke), from *bikjaną (“to thrust, attack”) (compare Old Norse bikkja (“plunge into water”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”)). More at bicker.

punk

man forced into a homoerotic relationship in prison

My bitch just had puppies; they're so cute!

All members of one breed, both dog and bitch, champion and nonchampion, are judged in a series of competitions until only one animal remains.

1953, LIFE, volume 34, number 6, page 110:

(dated or specialised, dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.

dated or specialised; dog-breeding; dated or specialised; dog-breeding

female

when the species is specified or implied

(slang, vulgar, idiomatic, derogatory, misogynistic) A female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations

(LGBTQ slang, idiomatic, vulgar, chiefly humorous) a sexual partner

Coordinate term: butcher

(colloquial, vulgar, card games) A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.


bar

bar (countable and uncountable, plural bars)

→ Albanian: bar m

→ Arabic: بَار m (bār)

→ Armenian: բար (bar)

→ Bulgarian: бар (bar)

→ Burmese: ဘား (bha:)

→ Chichewa: bála

→ Cantonese: 吧 (baa¹)

→ Czech: bar m

→ Danish: bar c

→ Dutch: bar m

→ Esperanto: baro

→ Estonian: baar

→ French: bar m
→ Romanian: bar

→ Galician: bar m

→ Georgian: ბარი (bari)

→ German: Bar f

→ Greek: μπαρ n (bar)

→ Gulf Arabic: بار (bār)

→ Hebrew: בָּר (bar), בָּאר (bár)

→ Hungarian: bár (also via German)

→ Icelandic: bar m

→ Irish: beár m

→ Italian: bar m

→ Japanese: バー (bā)

→ Khmer: បារ (baa)

→ Korean: 바 (ba)

→ Lithuanian: bãras m

→ Macedonian: бар m (bar)

→ Malagasy: ba

→ Mandarin: 吧 (bā)

→ Norwegian:

Bokmål: bar m

Nynorsk: bar m

→ Persian: بار (bâr)

→ Polish: bar m

→ Portuguese: bar m

→ Russian: бар m (bar)

→ Serbo-Croatian: ба̑р m, bȃr m

→ Slovene: bȃr m

→ Spanish: bar m

→ Swahili: baa

→ Swedish: bar c (see there for further descendants)

→ Thai: บาร์ (baa)

→ Turkish: bar

→ Xhosa: íbhári

→ Zulu: ibha

From Middle English barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Doublet of barre.

der

(farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.

(farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.


bar

bār (canonical masculine)
bār (nominative singular)
bāras (nominative plural)
bār (accusative singular)
bāras (accusative plural)
bāres (genitive singular)
bāra (genitive plural)
bāre (dative singular)
bārum (dative plural)

desctree

Middle English: bor, boor, bore, boore, bar, bare, bayre
English: boar
Scots: bair
Yola: boar


ovca

óvca (canonical feminine)
о́вца (Cyrillic)
óvca (nominative singular)
ȏvce (nominative plural)
óvcē (genitive singular)
ovácā (genitive plural)
óvci (dative singular)
óvcama (dative plural)
òvcama (dative plural)
óvcu (accusative singular)
ȏvce (accusative plural)
ȏvco (singular vocative)
ȏvce (plural vocative)
óvci (locative singular)
óvcama (locative plural)
òvcama (locative plural)
óvcōm (instrumental singular)
óvcama (instrumental plural)
òvcama (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ovьca, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *áwis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis.


ovca

sk-noun

ovca f (relational adjective ovčí, diminutive ovečka)

ovčí (adjective relational)
ovečka (diminutive)
ovca (nominative singular)
ovce (nominative plural)
ovce (genitive singular)
oviec (genitive plural)
ovci (dative singular)
ovciam (dative plural)
ovcu (accusative singular)
ovce (accusative plural)
ovci (locative singular)
ovciach (locative plural)
ovcou (instrumental singular)
ovcami (instrumental plural)


ovca

óvca (canonical feminine)
please help by adding the tonal marks.
ôvca (nominative singular)
ôvci (dual nominative)
ôvce (nominative plural)
ôvce (genitive singular)
ôvc (dual genitive)
ôvc (genitive plural)
ôvci (dative singular)
ôvcama (dative dual)
ôvcam (dative plural)
ôvco (accusative singular)
ôvci (accusative dual)
ôvce (accusative plural)
ôvci (locative singular)
ôvcah (dual locative)
ôvcah (locative plural)
ôvco (instrumental singular)
ôvcama (dual instrumental)
ôvcami (instrumental plural)
please help by adding the tonal marks.
ôvca (nominative singular)
ovcé (dual nominative)
ovcé (nominative plural)
ovcé (genitive singular)
ovác (dual genitive)
ovác (genitive plural)
ôvci (dative singular)
ovcáma (dative dual)
ovcàm (dative plural)
ovcó (accusative singular)
ovcé (accusative dual)
ovcé (accusative plural)
ôvci (locative singular)
ovcàh (dual locative)
ovcàh (locative plural)
ovcó (instrumental singular)
ovcáma (dual instrumental)
ovcámi (instrumental plural)


songster

From Middle English songster, sangester, sangstere, from Old English sangestre (“a female singer; songstress”), equivalent to song + -ster. Cognate with Scots sangstar (“singer; songster”). Compare also West Frisian sjongster (“singer; female singer; vocalist”).

cog

The woodcock, the snipe, and other nocturnal birds were all gone to rest; but the merry songsters of the wood now filled the air with their jubilee; the nutcracker began his monotonous clattering, the chaffinches and the wrens sang high in the sky, the blackcock scolded and blustered loudly, the thrush sang his mocking songs and libellous ditties about everybody, but became occasionally a little sentimental and warbled gently and bashfully some tender stanzas.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 89:


songstress

From songster + -ess. Compare West Frisian sjongeres (“songstress”), Dutch zangeres (“songstress”).


drone

→ Asturian: dron

→ Italian: drone

→ Punjabi: ਡ੍ਰੋਨ (ḍron)

→ Polish: dron

→ Portuguese: drone

→ Spanish: dron

From Middle English drane, from Old English drān, from Proto-West Germanic *drānu, from Proto-Germanic *drēniz, *drēnuz, *drenô (“an insect, drone”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrēn- (“bee, drone, hornet”). Cognate with Danish drone (“drone”), Dutch dar (“male bee or wasp”), German Drohne, dialectal German Dräne, Trehne, Trene (“drone”), Low German drone (“drone”), Swedish drönje, drönare (“drone”).
The etymology of the sense of "remote-controlled aircraft" is disputed; theories include early military UAVs dumbly flying on preset paths.

inh

All with united force combine to drive / The lazy drones from the laborious hive.

1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

A male ant, bee, or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen.


drone

head

drone c (singular definite dronen, plural indefinite droner)

dronen (definite singular)
droner (indefinite plural)
drone (indefinite nominative singular)
dronen (definite nominative singular)
droner (indefinite nominative plural)
dronerne (definite nominative plural)
drones (genitive indefinite singular)
dronens (definite genitive singular)
droners (genitive indefinite plural)
dronernes (definite genitive plural)

From Middle Low German drone (sense 1), and English drone (sense 2).


worker

From Middle English werkere, worcher, wercher, equivalent to work + -er. Displaced the older term wright, from Old English wyrhta.

A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.

(rare) A female ant, bee, termite or wasp.


hound

enm-noun

hound (plural houndes or (rare) hounden)

houndes (plural)
hounden (plural rare)
hound (accusative nominative singular)
houndes (accusative nominative plural)
houndes (genitive singular)
hounde (genitive plural)
hounde (dative singular)
hounden (dative plural)
honde (alternative)
hounde (alternative)
hund (alternative)
hunde (alternative)
hond (alternative)
hownd (alternative)
hownde (alternative)
hwond (alternative)

English: hound

Northumbrian: hoond, hund

Scots: hoond, hund

Canis lupus familiaris
Canis lupus familiaris#Translingual

dog, hound (The canid Canis lupus familiaris)

(specifically) A male or fully-grown dog.


leopard

leopards (plural)
lybard (alternative)
libbard (alternative)

From Middle English leopard, leopart, lepard, leperd, from Old French leopard (“leopard”), from Late Latin leopardus (“leopon, lipard”) from late Ancient Greek λεόπαρδος (leópardos, “leopon, lipard”), from λέων (léōn, “lion”) + πάρδος (párdos, “pard, male leopard”), from earlier πάρδαλις (párdalis, “leopard”), probably from an unattested Old Persian [Term?] term ancestral to Middle Persian palang, Khwarezmian plyk, Sogdian [script needed] (pwrδnk), Pashto پړانګ (pṛāng). Compare Persian پلنگ (palang) and Sanskrit पृदाकु (pṛdāku, “panther”).

tier

a large wild cat with a spotted coat, Panthera pardus

Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ náshdóítsoh łikizhígíí

leopon

hybrid formed by a leopard and a lioness

lipard

hybrid formed by a lion and a leopardess

During all such cases when we were present they responded by giving repeated alarm calls, even when the leopard was already feeding on a carcass. We wanted to determine whether vervets knew enough about the behavior of leopards to recognize that, even in the absence of a leopard, a carcass in a tree signaled the same potential danger as did a leopard itself.

1990, Dorothy L. Cheney, How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species, published 1992, page 284:

The leopard (Panthera pardus or Felis pardus cf tulliana) is a close relative of the lion, but biblical references mentioning it are very few, suggesting that it was not as common.

1998, Oded Borowski, Every Living Thing: Daily Use of Animals in Ancient Israel, page 201:

Leopard skins have always been desirable commodities because of their spectacular spotted patterns.

2005, Richard Ellis, Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine, page 197:

Panthera pardus
Panthera pardus#Translingual

Panthera pardus, a large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia, especially the male of the species (in contrast to leopardess).

Neofelis nebulosa
Neofelis nebulosa#Translingual

Neofelis diardi
Neofelis diardi#Translingual

(inexact) A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard.

A clouded leopard (either Neofelis nebulosa or Neofelis diardi), a large wild cat native to Asia.

Panthera uncia
Panthera uncia#Translingual

The snow leopard (Panthera uncia), a large wild cat native to Asia.

There are plenty of beautiful cats among the thirty-nine species in the Felidae family, but the three leopards—clouded, common, and snow—may be the most visually stunning. Cloaked in the most beautiful fur of any cat, the reclusive clouded leopard is the Greta Garbo of the lot; it lives a solitary life in the remote jungles of Asia, from Nepal to Borneo.

2005, Eric Dinerstein, Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations, page 81:

Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Phalanta, having black markings on an orange base.


lion

lions (plural)
lion (plural rare)
lyon (alternative)

→ Hawaiian: liona

→ Japanese: ライオン (raion)

→ Maia: laion

→ Tokelauan: leona

From Middle English lyoun, lion, leon, borrowed from Old French lion, from Latin leō, (accusative: leōnem), from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn), of unclear origin. Doublet of Leo, leu, lev, and Lyon. Displaced Old English lēo.

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb

A big cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa, India and formerly much of Europe.

(in particular) A male lion, as opposed to a lioness.


lion

Haitian Creole: lyon

Mauritian Creole: lyon

Seychellois Creole: lyon

Inherited from Old French lion, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin leōnem, from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn).

(dated) a style of elegant young man that came after the dandy


lioness

From Middle English leonesse, lyonesse, from Old French leonesse, lionesse; equivalent to lion + -ess.

When "lionesses" visiting Oxford for the gay doings of commemoration week spend a morning at Merton, they should look out for Antony Wood's mural tablet in the chapel, […]

1871, John Cordy Jeaffreson, Annals of Oxford, page 305:

"Now, boys, keep your eyes open, there must be plenty of lionesses about;" and thus warned, the whole load, including the cornopean player, were on the look-out for lady visitors, profanely called lionesses, all the way up the street.

1888, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, page 271:

(Oxford University slang, obsolete) A female visitor to a student at Oxford, especially during commemoration week.


ox

→ Abenaki: aksen (via "oxen")

→ Malecite-Passamaquoddy: akson (via "oxen")

→ Unami: aksën (via "oxen")

From Middle English oxe, from Old English oxa, from Proto-West Germanic *ohsō, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô (compare West Frisian okse, Dutch os, German Ochse), from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn.
Cognate with Welsh ych (“ox”), Tocharian A ops, Tocharian B okso (“draft-ox”), Avestan 𐬎𐬑𐬱𐬀𐬥 (uxšan, “bull”), Sanskrit उक्षन् (ukṣán).

nandwie

any bovine animal used as a beast of burden

one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen

An adult castrated male of cattle (B. taurus), especially when used as a beast of burden.


idi

idi (absolutive indefinite)
idia (absolutive indefinite singular)
idiak (absolutive indefinite plural)
idik (ergative indefinite)
idiak (ergative indefinite singular)
idiek (ergative indefinite plural)
idiri (dative indefinite)
idiari (dative indefinite singular)
idiei (dative indefinite plural)
idiren (genitive indefinite)
idiaren (genitive indefinite singular)
idien (genitive indefinite plural)
idirekin (comitative indefinite)
idiarekin (comitative indefinite singular)
idiekin (comitative indefinite plural)
idirengatik (causative indefinite)
idiarengatik (causative indefinite singular)
idiengatik (causative indefinite plural)
idirentzat (benefactive indefinite)
idiarentzat (benefactive indefinite singular)
idientzat (benefactive indefinite plural)
idiz (indefinite instrumental)
idiaz (indefinite instrumental singular)
idiez (indefinite instrumental plural)
idirengan (indefinite inessive)
idiarengan (indefinite inessive singular)
idiengan (indefinite inessive plural)
idirengana (allative indefinite)
idiarengana (allative indefinite singular)
idiengana (allative indefinite plural)
idirenganaino (indefinite terminative)
idiarenganaino (indefinite singular terminative)
idienganaino (indefinite plural terminative)
idirenganantz (directive indefinite)
idiarenganantz (directive indefinite singular)
idienganantz (directive indefinite plural)
idirenganako (destinative indefinite)
idiarenganako (destinative indefinite singular)
idienganako (destinative indefinite plural)
idirengandik (ablative indefinite)
idiarengandik (ablative indefinite singular)
idiengandik (ablative indefinite plural)
idirik (indefinite partitive)
iditzat (indefinite prolative)


da

dā (canonical feminine)
dā (nominative singular)
dān (nominative plural)
dān (accusative singular)
dān (accusative plural)
dān (genitive singular)
dāna (genitive plural)
dān (dative singular)
dām (dative plural)
dāum (dative plural)

Middle English: da, do, doo

Scots: da, dae

English: doe

From Proto-West Germanic *daijā, from Proto-Germanic *dajjǭ.


paw

pawica (feminine)
paw (nominative singular)
pawie (nominative plural)
pawia (genitive singular)
pawi (genitive plural)
pawiowi (dative singular)
pawiom (dative plural)
pawia (accusative singular)
pawie (accusative plural)
pawiem (instrumental singular)
pawiami (instrumental plural)
pawiu (locative singular)
pawiach (locative plural)
pawiu (singular vocative)
pawie (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Middle High German phāwe, from Latin pāvō.


jackass

en-noun

jackass (countable and uncountable, plural jackasses)


jenny-ass

jenny-asses (plural)
jennyass (alternative)

c. 1849, G. Herbert Rodwell, Old London Bridge, London: Henry Lea, Chapter 15, p. 158,
[…] this little donkey could not be trusted in the road, for it was always getting under the wheels, because it would not let its mother, a fine fat old jenny ass in the shafts, alone.

But a man who holds so tightly to what he calls his rights over what he calls his debts will hold tightly also to what he calls his rights over her whom he calls his wife. No sir smile neighbour shall covet his ox or his wife or his manservant or his maidservant or his jackass. / —Or his jennyass, Buck Mulligan antiphoned.

1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

[…] old rope is for tethering your jennyass […]

1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford, London: Hutchinson, Part One:


jenny

Partially from generic use of the female given name Jenny (cf. Jane) and partially from informal pronunciations of engine.

A female creature of certain kinds:
(Australia) a female crab.

A female creature of certain kinds:
a female crab.


she-ass

From Middle English she asse; equivalent to she- + ass.


she-bear

From Middle English sche bere; equivalent to she- + bear.

Elisha [...] was able to call upon two she-bears to come and eat up the children who had treated him irreverently[.]

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 52:

two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.

2001, Bible Old Testament 2 Kings 2:24 (English Standard Version)

A female bear (as opposed to a he-bear, male bear).


Kuh

Kih (plural)
Kihche (diminutive)
khuu (alternative)

From Central Franconian Kuh, from Middle High German kuo, from Old High German kuo, from Proto-West Germanic *kō, from Proto-Germanic *kōz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws.


tod

From Middle English tod, of unknown origin. Possibly influenced by Etymology 2, due to its bushy tail.

unk

unknown


duckling

From Middle English dokeling, dukling, dookelynge (“duckling”), equivalent to duck + -ling.

Good night, darling; take that kiss to your respected mother, and tell her with my compliments that we can’t afford to make ducks and drakes of the romance of our little pet’s life: she will hatch those birds for herself in due time, and remain cluck-clucking, wisely, but sadly, like a perplexed old hen, when her ducklings and drakelings have unexpectedly taken the water.

1858, “Edith Clarel: A Story from Three Points of View”, in The Money Bag: Literature, Politics, Finance, volume I, number 4, London: Daniel F. Oakey, […], page 232:

Referring to Table 1 it will be seen that if a breeding duck produces 40 marketable progeny each year (and in practice this should be achieved) half of which are ducklings and the other half drakelings, and these birds realise 2s. per lb. live weight, then that breeding duck would return approximately £15 10s. over feeding costs for the 12 months.

1951, Supplement to the Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Western Australia, volume 28, page 216:

Muscovy ducks with ducklings. This is the most popular breed for table purposes. They make weights of up to 5 lb. for ducklings at 13 to 14 weeks, and up to 9 lb. for drakelings at 16 weeks when correctly handled.

1961, Allan A[rthur] McArdle, Poultry Management and Production (Agricultural and Livestock Series), Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus and Robertson, page 563:


drake

From Middle English drake (“male duck, drake”), from Old English *draca, abbreviated form for Old English *andraca (“male duck, drake”, literally “duck-king”), from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō (“duck leader”). Cognate with Low German drake (“drake”), Dutch draak (“drake”), German Enterich (“drake”). More at annet.


drake

English: drake

Scots: drake

Inherited from Old English draca, aphetic form of *andraca, from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō; compare ende (“duck”).


vixen

vixens (plural)
fixen (alternative)
vixon (alternative)

Alteration of earlier fixen, from Middle English fixen, from Old English fyxe, from Proto-West Germanic *fuhsini, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsinī; the voiced v- comes from the Southern dialectal forms of Middle English. Alternatively, from the Old English adjective fyxen (“of the fox”), as in the phrase fixen hȳd (“fox skin”; compare Middle English foxen fox).


ursa

From Latin ursa, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos (“bear”).

(Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) female bear


vacca

From Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *woḱéh₂. Cognates include Italian vacca and Spanish vaca.


vacca

it-noun

vaccóna<g:f><q:also with figurative derogatory meaning>,vaccóne<g:m>

vaccàccia<qq:uncommon, often used figuratively as an insult>

vacca f (plural vacche, diminutive vaccarèlla or vaccherèlla or vacchétta or (rare) vacchìna or (rare) vacchicìna, augmentative (also with figurative derogatory meaning) vaccóna f or vaccóne m, pejorative vaccàccia (uncommon, often used figuratively as an insult), derogatory (rare) vaccùccia)

vacche (plural)
vaccarèlla (diminutive)
vaccherèlla (diminutive)
vacchétta (diminutive)
vacchìna (diminutive rare)
vacchicìna (diminutive rare)
vaccóna (also augmentative feminine)
vaccóne (augmentative masculine)
vaccàccia (often pejorative uncommon)
vaccùccia (derogatory rare)

→ Alemannic German: Wagge

(vulgar, slang, figurative, derogatory) whore, slut


vacca

la-noun

vacca f (genitive vaccae); first declension

vaccae (genitive)
vacca (nominative singular)
vaccae (nominative plural)
vaccae (genitive singular)
vaccārum (genitive plural)
vaccae (dative singular)
vaccīs (dative plural)
vaccam (accusative singular)
vaccās (accusative plural)
vaccā (ablative singular)
vaccīs (ablative plural)
vacca (singular vocative)
vaccae (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

Aromanian: vacã

Istro-Romanian: våcĕ

Megleno-Romanian: vacă

Romanian: vacă

Dalmatian:

vaca, baka, vacca, baca, bacca

Italo-Romance:

Corsican: vacca

desctree

Italian: vacca
→ Alemannic German: Wagge

Sicilian: vacca

Padanian:

Gallo-Italic:

Emilian: vaca

Ligurian: vacca

Lombard: àca, vaca, vacja

Piedmontese: vaca

Romagnol: vàca

desc

Friulian: vacje, vačhe (alternative orthography)

Ladin: vacia

Romansch: vatga, vacca, vacha

Venetan: vaca

Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: vaca

Franco-Provençal: vache

Old French: vache (see there for further descendants)

Occitan: vaca

Ibero-Romance:

Aragonese: baca

Asturian: vaca

Extremaduran: vaca

Mirandese: baca

desctree

Old Galician-Portuguese: vaca
Fala: vaca
Galician: vaca
Portuguese: vaca (see there for further descendants)

Old Spanish: vaca

Ladino: vaka

Spanish: vaca (see there for further descendants)

Insular Romance:

Sardinian: bacca, bàca

Borrowings:

→ English: vacci-

Possibly from a Proto-Italic *wokā, from Proto-Indo-European *woḱéh₂, with a diminutive/hypocoristic or expressive suffix -ca. May be borrowed from another Indo-European language, but no obvious European cognate is known.


lupa

la-noun

lupa f (genitive lupae); first declension

lupae (genitive)
lupa (nominative singular)
lupae (nominative plural)
lupae (genitive singular)
lupārum (genitive plural)
lupae (dative singular)
lupīs (dative plural)
lupābus (dative plural)
lupam (accusative singular)
lupās (accusative plural)
lupā (ablative singular)
lupīs (ablative plural)
lupābus (ablative plural)
lupa (singular vocative)
lupae (plural vocative)

Aromanian: lupã

Asturian: lloba

Aragonese: lupa

Catalan: lloba

French: louve

Friulian: love

Italian: lupa

Neapolitan: lopa

Occitan: loba

Portuguese: loba

Sicilian: lupa

Spanish: loba

Venetan: lova

The feminine version of lupus. The sense “prostitute” is either a comparison of the prostitutes' predation on men to the wolf's rapacity, as also in Isidore's (often fanciful) opinion, or a reference to the she-wolf's uncleanliness and promiscuity (often culturally conflated), parallelled in English bitch.


leo

leō m (genitive leōnis); third declension

leō (canonical masculine)
leōnis (genitive)
leō (nominative singular)
leōnēs (nominative plural)
leōnis (genitive singular)
leōnum (genitive plural)
leōnī (dative singular)
leōnibus (dative plural)
leōnem (accusative singular)
leōnēs (accusative plural)
leōne (ablative singular)
leōnibus (ablative plural)
leō (singular vocative)
leōnēs (plural vocative)

Eastern Romance:

Italo-Dalmatian:

Corsican: lionu

Italian: leone

Sicilian: liuni
→ Maltese: ljun

Romanian: leu

Venetan: leon, lion

Western Romance:

Gallo-italic:

Ligurian: lión

Lombard: leon

Piedmontese: lion, leon

Old French: lion (see there for further descendants)

Rhaeto-Romance:

Friulian: lion

Romansch: liun

Navarro-Aragonese:

Aragonese: lión

Old Leonese:

Asturian: llión, lleón

Leonese: llión

Old Occitan:

Catalan: lleó

Occitan: leon

Old Galician-Portuguese: leon

Galician: león

desctree

Portuguese: leão
Kabuverdianu: lion
Macanese: leám
Papiamentu: leon
→ Tetum: leaun

Old Spanish: leon (see there for further descendants)

Southern Romance:

Sardinian: leone, leoni, lioni

→ Albanian: luan

→ Basque: lehoi

→ Proto-Brythonic: *llew (see there for further descendants)

→ Proto-West Germanic: *lēwō (see there for further descendants)

→ Gothic: 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌰 (laiwa)
→ Proto-Slavic: *lьvъ (see there for further descendants)

→ Old English: lēo

→ Old Irish: léoman, léo

Irish: leon

Scottish Gaelic: leòmhann

→ Old Norse: león, leó (see there for further descendants)

Translingual: †Microleo, †Priscileo, †Thylacoleo, †Wakaleo


Bache

de-noun

Bache f (genitive Bache, plural Bachen, masculine Keiler or Bacher or Wildeber)

Bache (genitive)
Bachen (plural)
Keiler (masculine)
Bacher (masculine)
Wildeber (masculine)
Bache (nominative singular)
Bachen (definite nominative plural)
Bache (genitive singular)
Bachen (definite genitive plural)
Bache (dative singular)
Bachen (dative definite plural)
Bache (accusative singular)
Bachen (accusative definite plural)

From Late Middle High German bache f (“fattened sow, female porker”), by gender change from the word in etymology 2 below; see Bachen. The sense developed from “bacon” via “slaughtered pig” to “porker”. The modern use is from hunters’ jargon.

inh

Auf nächtlicher Fahrt durch den Berliner Grunewald galoppiert dem Pkw-Fahrer F plötzlich eine Wildsau vor die Stoßstange. F kann den Zusammenstoß nicht vermeiden. Das Auto ist im Frontbereich zerbeult, die Bache ist tot.

2017, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Mitsch, “Tiere und Strafrecht”, in Juristische Ausbildung, number 12, →DOI, page 1397:

On a nightly ride through the Grunewald in Berlin suddenly a wild sow galopps right up to bumper of the car driver F. F cannot prevent the crash. The car is battered in the front-end, the sow is dead.


berg

Berg (alternative)
bérg (alternative)
bärg (alternative)
Bärrech (alternative)

(geography) mountain, hill (refers to any elevated terrain)


brav

brȃv (canonical masculine)
бра̑в (Cyrillic)
brav (nominative singular)
bravi (nominative plural)
brava (genitive singular)
brava (genitive plural)
bravu (dative singular)
bravima (dative plural)
brava (accusative singular)
brave (accusative plural)
brave (singular vocative)
bravi (plural vocative)
bravu (locative singular)
bravima (locative plural)
bravom (instrumental singular)
bravima (instrumental plural)


dem

sq-noun

dem m (plural dema, definite demi, definite plural demat)

dema (plural)
demi (definite)
demat (definite plural)
dem (indefinite nominative singular)
demi (definite nominative singular)
dema (indefinite nominative plural)
demat (definite nominative plural)
dem (accusative indefinite singular)
demin (accusative definite singular)
dema (accusative indefinite plural)
demat (accusative definite plural)
demi (dative indefinite singular)
demit (dative definite singular)
demave (dative indefinite plural)
demave (dative definite plural)
demi (ablative indefinite singular)
demit (ablative definite singular)
demash (ablative indefinite plural)
demave (ablative definite plural)

From Proto-Albanian *dama, from Proto-Indo-European *dm̥h₂ós (“bull”) (compare Irish damh, Ancient Greek δάμαλος (dámalos, “calf”)), from *demh₂- (“to tame”) (compare Latin domō, English tame).


sow

sows (plural)
swine (archaic plural)
zew (alternative)
soo (alternative)

From Middle English sowe, from Old English sugu, from Proto-West Germanic *sugu, from Proto-Germanic *sugō, probably from Proto-Indo-European *su(H)kéh₂, from *suH- (“pig”).
See also West Frisian sûch, Dutch zeug, Low German Söög, German Sau, Swedish sugga, Norwegian sugge; also Welsh hwch (“pig”), Sanskrit सूकर (sūkará, “swine, boar”); also Danish so, German Sau, Latin sūs, Tocharian B suwo, Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Albanian thi, Avestan 𐬵𐬏 (hū, “boar”). See also swine. Doublet of soor.

Lucky he wasn't a sow. They've usually just dropped a cub this time of year. A sow would have been cranky as hell.

1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 11:


tigress

From French tigresse, corresponding to tiger + -ess.

So-al was a mighty fine-looking girl, built like a tigress as to strength and sinuosity, but withal sweet and womanly.

1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, part II, number 12, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, March 1927, →OCLC, page 1164, column 1:

Indestructibly seductive at 79, this greatest and wittiest of all singing tigresses has lasted even longer on the stage than the original glamorous grandmother, Marlene Dietrich.

2006 October 6, Stephen Holden, “Fabled Feline Charms, in Fine Working Order”, in The New York Times:


cob

en-noun

cob (countable and uncountable, plural cobs)

Of uncertain origin. The word has many disparate senses, which are likely of diverse origin. The specifics of these origins have long been debated, as has the question of which senses arise from which origins. At least the swan sense originated in Middle English cobbe (“male swan; gang leader; bully”). Some other senses likely originated as a variant of cop (“head, top, peak, summit”). In other senses, the word may be related to cub, itself of obscure origin but possibly from Old Norse kobbi (“seal”). However, many alternative etymologies have been proposed to account for some or all senses of cob; various sources have related it, for example, to English cot (“cottage”), Welsh cob (“top, tuft”), or German Kübel (“large container”). All these etymologies are disputed, and the exact origins of cob cannot be known with any certainty.

inh

In all common streams, and private waters, when cygnets are taken up, the owner of the cob must chuse the first cygnet, and the pen the next, and so in order….

1664, John Witherings, “The Orders, Laws, and Ancient Customs of Swans”, in The Harleian Miscellany, volume VII, published 1810, page 292:

The cob waddled out onto the island and looked in the nest.

1970, E. B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan, HarperCollins, published 2000, →ISBN, page 22:

The cob will defend the nest and the eggs.

2008, Nicole Helget, Swans, Creative Education,, →ISBN, page 22:

svanasteggi

there is no special word in Faroese for cob in this sense

cygne mâle

there is no special word in French for cob in this sense

Schwanenmännchen (cf. Schwanen-, Männchen n)

cisne macho

there is no special word in Spanish for cob in this sense

svanhane

there is no special word in Swedish for cob in this sense


tom

From generic use of the proper name Tom.


gander

From Middle English gandre, from Old English gandra, ganra (“gander”), from Proto-West Germanic *ganʀō, from Proto-Germanic *ganzô (“gander”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns (“goose”). The meaning "a look" is derived from the image of craning one's neck like a goose.
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch gander (“gander”), Low German Gander, Ganner (“gander”), dialectal German Gandert (“gander”), German Ganter (“gander”), Norwegian gasse (“gander”), Icelandic gassi (“gander”). Compare also Lithuanian gañdras (“stork”). Related to goose, gannet.

Ganders and geese are at their best for stock from two to ten years old. They live to a great age—it is stated to thirty or more years—but after ten years they cannot be reckoned upon as reliable assets on a farm. Two years old is the best age to mate them, making up pens of a gander and two or three geese at the New Year. It is difficult sometimes to distinguish ganders from geese. A practical man is, however, rarely mistaken.

1902, Lewis Wright, “Geese and Swans”, in The New Book of Poultry […], London, […]: Cassell and Company, Limited, page 560, column 1:

Old Mother Goose / When she wanted to wander / Would ride through the air / On a very fine gander.

1916, Blanche Fisher Wright, The Original Mother Goose:

Marta's gander was a magnificent snow-white bird: the object of terror to foxes, children and dogs. She had reared him as a gosling; and whenever he approached, he would let fly a low contented burble and sidle his neck around her thighs.

1988, Bruce Chatwin, Utz, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN; republished London: Vintage Books, 2005, →ISBN, page 50:


gander

nl-noun

gander m (plural ganders, diminutive gandertje n)

ganders (plural)
gandertje (diminutive neuter)

Most likely from English gander or Low German gander, ganner. Both are possibly formed from gans (“goose”) in an analogous way as kater (“male cat”) from kat (“(female) cat”) and doffer (“male dove”) from duif (“(female) dove”).


brebis

Inherited from Old French berbis, berbiz, from Vulgar Latin *berbicem, from Late Latin berbēcem, from Latin vervēx (“wether”).


wether

en-verb

wether (third-person singular simple present wethers, present participle wethering, simple past and past participle wethered)

wethers (present singular third-person)
wethering (participle present)
wethered (participle past)
wethered (past)
wedder (alternative)

From Middle English wether, wethir, wedyr, from Old English weþer (“a wether, ram”), from Proto-West Germanic *weþru, from Proto-Germanic *weþruz (“wether”), from Proto-Indo-European *wet- (“year”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots weddir, woddir, wadder (“wether”), Dutch weder, weer (“wether”), German Widder (“wether, ram”), Norwegian Bokmål vær (“ram”), Norwegian Nynorsk vêr (“ram”), Swedish vädur (“wether, ram”), Icelandic veður (“wether, ram”), Latin vitulus (“calf”).

(transitive) To castrate a male sheep or goat.


tup

From Middle English tupe (compare Scots tuip), origin unknown.

... to tie up rams, which could not be supposed to much used to handling ... having often heard for a proverb, as mad as a tup in an halter