antenna

la-noun

antenna f (genitive antennae); first declension

antennae (genitive)
antenna (nominative singular)
antennae (nominative plural)
antennae (genitive singular)
antennārum (genitive plural)
antennae (dative singular)
antennīs (dative plural)
antennam (accusative singular)
antennās (accusative plural)
antennā (ablative singular)
antennīs (ablative plural)
antenna (singular vocative)
antennae (plural vocative)

→ Dutch: antenne

English: antenna

desctree

French: antenne
→ Romanian: antenă
→ Turkish: anten
→ Vietnamese: ăng ten

Galician: entena, antena

→ German: Antenne

→ Hebrew: אַנְטֶנָה (anténa)

→ Irish: aintéine

Italian: antenna

→ Polish: antena

Portuguese: antena

→ Russian: анте́нна f (anténna)

Spanish: antena, entena

→ Swedish: antenn

[än̪ˈt̪ɛnːä]

[än̪ˈt̪ɛnːä]

May be from Proto-Italic *antitempnā, from Proto-Indo-European *temp- (“to stretch, extend”).


trunk

From Middle English tronke, trunke, from Old French tronc (“alms box, tree trunk, headless body”), from Latin truncus (“a stock, lopped tree trunk”), from truncus (“cut off, maimed, mutilated”). For the verb, compare French tronquer, and see truncate. Doublet of truncus and tronk.

the apple does not fall far from the trunk

(in the plural) Short for swimming trunks.


trunk

en-verb

trunk (third-person singular simple present trunks, present participle trunking, simple past and past participle trunked)

trunks (present singular third-person)
trunking (participle present)
trunked (participle past)
trunked (past)

Large streames of bloud out of the truncked stocke / Forth gushed, like fresh water streame from riuen rocke.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 10:

(transitive, obsolete) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.


method

en-noun

method (countable and uncountable, plural methods)

From Middle French methode, from Latin methodus, from Ancient Greek μέθοδος (méthodos).

mètode

(programming) subroutine or function in object-oriented languages

my very easy method just speeds up naming planets


ed

Wen unu kip we fram fuud fi worship Gad, ail unu ed an wash unu fies man,

2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Matyu 6:17:

But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,


curriculum

la-noun

curriculum n (genitive curriculī); second declension

curriculī (genitive)
curriculum (nominative singular)
curricula (nominative plural)
curriculī (genitive singular)
curriculōrum (genitive plural)
curriculō (dative singular)
curriculīs (dative plural)
curriculum (accusative singular)
curricula (accusative plural)
curriculō (ablative singular)
curriculīs (ablative plural)
curriculum (singular vocative)
curricula (plural vocative)

→ Catalan: currículum

→ English: curricle; curriculum

→ French: curriculum

→ German: Curriculum

Italian: curricolo

Norman: tchuthitchulum

Portuguese: currículo

Spanish: currículo, carrejo

[kʊrˈrɪkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]

From currō (“run, move quickly”) + -culum.


stratum

strātum n (genitive strātī); second declension

strātum (canonical neuter)
strātī (genitive)
strātum (nominative singular)
strāta (nominative plural)
strātī (genitive singular)
strātōrum (genitive plural)
strātō (dative singular)
strātīs (dative plural)
strātum (accusative singular)
strāta (accusative plural)
strātō (ablative singular)
strātīs (ablative plural)
strātum (singular vocative)
strāta (plural vocative)

Catalan: estrat

→ Dutch: stratum

→ English: stratum

→ Welsh: stratwm

French: strate

Friulian: strât

Galician: estrado

Italian: strato

Occitan: estrat

Piedmontese: strat

Portuguese: estrado

Romanian: strat

Spanish: estrado

→ French: estrade

→ English: estrade

desc

→ Welsh: gwastrawd (“groom, stablekeeper”)

[ˈs̠t̪räːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]

From strātus, perfect passive participle of sternō (“spread”).


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

red-black triplefin (Tripterygion tripteronotus)


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

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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.


aper

la-noun

aper m (genitive aprī); second declension

aprī (genitive)
aper (nominative singular)
aprī (nominative plural)
aprī (genitive singular)
aprōrum (genitive plural)
aprō (dative singular)
aprīs (dative plural)
aprum (accusative singular)
aprōs (accusative plural)
aprō (ablative singular)
aprīs (ablative plural)
aper (singular vocative)
aprī (plural vocative)

Sardinian: apru

Italian: apro

From Proto-Italic *apros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-r-. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *eburaz, Proto-Slavic *veprь.

(figuratively) a standard of the Roman legions


sagitta

en-noun

sagitta (plural sagittas or (arrowworm) sagittae)

/səˈd͡ʒɪt.ə/

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sagitta.wav

Borrowing from Latin sagitta (“an arrow, shaft, bolt”).

(zootomy) The larger of the two otoliths, or earbones, found in most fishes.


vinum

la-noun

vīnum n (genitive vīnī); second declension

vīnum (canonical neuter)
vīnī (genitive)
vīnum (nominative singular)
vīna (nominative plural)
vīnī (genitive singular)
vīnōrum (genitive plural)
vīnō (dative singular)
vīnīs (dative plural)
vīnum (accusative singular)
vīna (accusative plural)
vīnō (ablative singular)
vīnīs (ablative plural)
vīnum (singular vocative)
vīna (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

Aromanian: yin, yinu

Istro-Romanian: vir

Megleno-Romanian: vin

Romanian: vin

Dalmatian:

vain

North Italian:

Friulian: vin

Istriot: veîn, vèin

Ladin: vin

Ligurian: vin

Lombard: vin

Piedmontese: vin

Romagnol: vẽn, vèin, vòin

Romansch: vin, vegn

Venetan: vin

Italo-Romance:

desctree

Italian: vino
→ English: vino
→ Sidamo: viino

Neapolitan: vino

Sicilian: vinu

Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: vin

Old French: vin (see there for further descendants)

Occitano-Romance:

Catalan: vi

Occitan: vin

Ibero-Romance:

Aragonese: vino

Old Leonese:

Asturian: vinu

Extremaduran: vinu

Leonese: vinu

Mirandese: bino

Old Galician-Portuguese: vinho, vỹo, vinno, viño
Fala: viñu
Galician: viño, vinho (reintegrationist), vĩo (Ancarese)
Portuguese: vinho (see there for further descendants)

Old Spanish: vino

Ladino: vino

Spanish: vino (see there for further descendants)

Insular Romance:

Sardinian: binu

Borrowings:

→ Proto-Celtic: *wīnom (see there for further descendants)

→ Etruscan: 𐌅𐌉𐌍𐌖𐌌 (vinum)

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

→ Proto-Slavic: *vino (see there for further descendants)

From Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom.


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


serra

red-breasted merganser
red-breasted merganser

Mergus serrator
Mergus serrator#Translingual

red-breasted merganser (Mergus serrator)


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

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


brav

brav (nominative singular)
bravu (genitive singular)
bravu (dative singular)
brav (accusative singular)
brave (singular vocative)
bravu (locative singular)
bravem (instrumental singular)

outdated word for small cattle like pigs, goats, sheep


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)


herb

en-noun

herb (countable and uncountable, plural herbs)

From Middle English herbe, erbe, from Old French erbe (French herbe), from Latin herba. Initial h was restored to the spelling in the 15th century on the basis of Latin, but it remained mute until the 19th century and still is for many speakers. Doublet of yerba.

You think he's got any herb?

1995, Harmony Korine, Kids, spoken by Casper:


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).


felon

From Middle English feloun, felone (“type of carbuncle or sore with pus; swelling on a hawk’s body”), possibly from Old French *felon, from Latin fel (“bile, gall; bitterness; poison; venom”): see etymology 1.

der

He hev been away from home for a few days, since he's had that felon upon his finger; for a' said, since I can't work I'll have a hollerday.

1874, Thomas Hardy, “In the Sun—a Harbinger”, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 31:

(pathology, veterinary medicine) A small infected sore; an abscess, a boil; specifically, a whitlow (“infection near or under the cuticle of a fingernail or toenail”).


cornu

la-noun

cornū n (genitive cornūs); fourth declension

cornū (canonical neuter)
cornūs (genitive)
cornū (nominative singular)
cornua (nominative plural)
cornūs (genitive singular)
cornuum (genitive plural)
cornū (dative singular)
cornibus (dative plural)
cornū (accusative singular)
cornua (accusative plural)
cornū (ablative singular)
cornibus (ablative plural)
cornū (singular vocative)
cornua (plural vocative)

Aromanian: cornu

Asturian: cuernu

Catalan: corn

Dalmatian: cuarno

English: cornet, corn, -corn

Esperanto: korno

Franco-Provençal: côrna

French: cor, corne

Friulian: cuar

Galician: corno

Ido: korno

→ Irish: corn

Istriot: cuorno

Italian: corno

Old French: corn, corne

Portuguese: corno

Romanian: corn

Romansch: corn, corna

Sardinian: corru

Sicilian: cornu

Spanish: cuerno

Venetan: corno

→ Welsh: corn

Occitan: còrn

Inherited from Proto-Italic *kornū. Cognate with English horn, hirn; Ancient Greek κρᾱνίον (krāníon, “skull”), κέρας (kéras, “horn”); Sanskrit शृङ्ग (śṛ́ṅga, “horn, tusk”). See also cerebrum (“brain”), cervus (“deer”).

cog

any substance like the material of a horn, such as the beak or bill of a bird

the end of a book or scroll, usually made of ivory


py

head

py (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mby)


bobby

Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumblin
They rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobody
Hold that properly when I bang that dotty
I put sniff in a rex, and I slang that bobby

2017, “Next Up?”, Digga D (lyrics), performed by 1011 (Digga D x Sav'O x T.Y):


unicorn

From Middle English unicorne, unikorn, from Anglo-Norman unicorne, Old French unicorne, and their source, Latin ūnicornis, from ūnus (“one”) + cornū (“horn”). Other senses from either rarity (e.g., possessing multiple skills) or by physical resemblance to having a horn (e.g., howitzer). The finance sense was coined by American investor Aileen Lee and first used in a 2013 article.

God brought him forth out of Egypt, he hath as it were the ſtrength of an Vnicorne: he ſhall eate vp the nations his enemies, and ſhall breake their bones, and pierce them thorow with his arrowes.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 24:8, column 1:

רְאֵם ראם#Hebrew

(historical) In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin unicornis or rhinoceros (representing Hebrew רְאֵם): a reem or wild ox.

But I also think, “They’re looking for a unicorn — a magical designer who can solve all their problems.” It’s too bad unicorns don’t exist. … I have never met a designer who is an expert in all those skill areas. … Even if you find a unicorn designer with all those skills, actually doing all those things at your company is a huge amount of work.

2011 November 1, Braden Kowitz, “Hiring a designer: hunting the unicorn”, in Google Ventures:

He believes that good data scientists, “otherwise known as unicorn data scientists,” have three types of expertise.

2015 October 3, Gil Press, “These Are The Skills You Need To (Eventually) Become A $240,000+ Unicorn Data Scientist”, in Forbes:

en:someone or something rare and hard to find

en:person with so much multidisciplinary expertise as to be rare

Someone or something that is rare and hard to find.

(business) A person with multidisciplinary expertise, especially a laundry list of three or more skills in a young field such as UX design or data science (e.g., domain knowledge, statistics, and software engineering).

Coordinate term: decacorn

As the price of Web hosting plummeted and PCs and cell phones proliferated, college and grad-school dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Page and Sergey Brin could suddenly conjure unicorns on their laptops.

2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker:

In May 2016, out of 163 global unicorns, China had 31, with a total valuation of $154 billion or about 26 percent of global unicorn valuation.

2017, Pongsak Hoontrakul, Economic Transformation and Business Opportunities in Asia, Springer, →ISBN, page 273:

(finance) A startup company whose valuation has exceeded one billion U.S. dollars, which is solely backed by venture capitalists, and which has yet to have an IPO.


unicorn

en-verb

unicorn (third-person singular simple present unicorns, present participle unicorning, simple past and past participle unicorned)

unicorns (present singular third-person)
unicorning (participle present)
unicorned (participle past)
unicorned (past)

Since Waze, Soluto and Onavo, both Israeli startups, have had great exits in consumer tech, and Wix “unicorned” through its IPO.

2014 November 3, Itay Hod, “The Airbnb of Home-Cooked Meals”, in Daily Beast:

For eager investors looking to score in a future IPO, the eight still-private martech unicorns might be tempting. That list includes Domo, Slack, Sprinklr, Shopify, and EventBrite, all of which have “unicorned,” or surpassed the billion-dollar valuation mark, in the past year or two.

2015 April 30, John Koetsier, “29 martech unicorns: There are now almost 30 $1B+ marketing technology vendors”, in Venture Beat:

For instance, at the same time as Intercom was announcing its unicorning moment, a young Dublin tech company called Let's Get Checked (letsgetchecked.com) raised €10m in a funding round.

2018 April 1, Adrian Weckler, “Admit it: Irish tech is on the up”, in The Independent:

(finance) To exceed a valuation of one billion U.S. dollars, while solely backed by venture capitalists.


frog

From frog legs, stereotypical food of the French. Compare French rosbif (“English person”), from roast beef, corresponding term for the English, likewise based on stereotypical food; and Kraut for Germans.

(Canada, offensive) A French-speaking person from Quebec.


frog

head

frog m or f (genitive singular froig, nominative plural froganna)

froig (genitive singular)
froganna (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
frog (indefinite singular)
froganna (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a fhroig (indefinite singular)
a fhroganna (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
froig (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an frog (definite singular)
na froganna (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an fhroig (definite singular)
na bhfroganna (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an bhfrog (definite singular)
don fhrog (definite singular)
leis na froganna (definite plural)
frog
fhrog
bhfrog

frog (amphibian; organ in a horse’s foot)


cabra

Inherited from Latin capra, from caper, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros. Compare Occitan cabra, French chèvre.

European spider crab
European spider crab


cabra

es-noun

cabra f (plural cabras, masculine cabro, masculine plural cabros)

cabras (plural)
cabro (masculine)
cabros (masculine plural)

Inherited from Old Spanish cabra, from Latin capra, from caper, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros.


sow

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:

(military) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.


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”).
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.

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:

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

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”).


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)

(transitive) To castrate a male sheep or goat.


wether

There was a great fyer in the chamber, the wether was colde, and I saw now and then a Bishop come out;

1527, George Joye, The storie of my state after the bishop had receyued the pryours letters:


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


hen

From Middle English hen, from Old English henn (“hen”), from Proto-West Germanic *hannju, from Proto-Germanic *hanjō (“hen”), from Proto-Indo-European *kan-, *kana- (“to sing”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hanne (“hen”), West Frisian hin (“hen”), Dutch hen (“hen”), German Low German Heen (“hen”), German Henne (“hen”), Danish høne (“hen”), Swedish höna (“hen”), Icelandic hæna (“hen”). Related to Old English hana (“cock, rooster”). Also cognate to Latin cicōnia (“stork”), Latin canō (“to sing”), Russian каню́к (kanjúk, “buzzard”). Compare Russian пету́х (petúx, “rooster, cock”) from Russian петь (petʹ, “to sing”).

Weibchen

generic term for the female of any animal

She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

Coordinate term: cock

Gallus gallus
Gallus gallus#Translingual

A female chicken (Gallus gallus), particularly a sexually mature one kept for her eggs.

Coordinate term: cock

In Tain, north of Inverness, staff detected 11 males and at least seven hens – the highest number there since 2011.

2023 June 17, Severin Carrell, “Dancing Capercaillie bird makes a tentative comeback in Scotland”, in The Guardian:

A female of other bird species, particularly a sexually mature female fowl.

As spawning time approaches – autumn or very early winter in most rivers, though in some late-run streams salmon may spawn as late as January or February – the hen's colouration becomes first a matt-pewter and then a drab dark brown-grey. The cock fish, in contrast, begins to gain some brighter colours.

2005, Roderick Sutterby, Malcolm Greenhalgh, “Life in the Nursery”, in Atlantic Salmon: An Illustrated Natural History, Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 21:

(uncommon) A female fish (especially a salmon or trout) or crustacean.

(UK, informal) A bride-to-be, particularly in the context of a hen night.

Don't cry, hen. Everything will be all right.

(Scotland, informal) An affectionate term of address used to women or girls.

Mercenaria mercenaria
Mercenaria mercenaria#Translingual

The hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), a bivalve shellfish.


hen

ik (first-person personal pronoun singular stressed subjective)
'k (first-person personal pronoun singular subjective unstressed)
mij (first-person objective personal pronoun singular stressed)
me (first-person objective personal pronoun singular unstressed)
mijn (first-person personal possessive pronoun singular stressed)
m'n (first-person personal possessive pronoun singular unstressed)
mijne (first-person personal possessive predicative pronoun)
me (first-person personal possessive predicative pronoun reflexive)
mijner (archaic first-person genitive personal predicative pronoun)
mijns (archaic first-person genitive personal predicative pronoun)
jij (personal pronoun second-person singular stressed subjective)
je (personal pronoun second-person singular subjective unstressed)
jou (objective personal pronoun second-person singular stressed)
je (objective personal pronoun second-person singular unstressed)
jouw (personal possessive pronoun second-person singular stressed)
je (personal possessive pronoun second-person singular unstressed)
jouwe (personal possessive predicative pronoun second-person)
je (personal possessive predicative pronoun reflexive second-person)
jouwer (archaic genitive personal predicative pronoun second-person)
jouws (archaic genitive personal predicative pronoun second-person)
gij (archaic dialectal personal pronoun second-person singular stressed subjective)
ge (archaic dialectal personal pronoun second-person singular subjective unstressed)
u (archaic dialectal objective personal pronoun second-person singular stressed)
uw (archaic dialectal personal possessive pronoun second-person singular stressed)
uwe (archaic dialectal personal possessive predicative pronoun second-person)
u (archaic dialectal personal possessive predicative pronoun reflexive second-person)
uwer (archaic dialectal genitive personal predicative pronoun second-person)
uws (archaic dialectal genitive personal predicative pronoun second-person)
u (formal personal pronoun second-person singular stressed subjective)
u (formal objective personal pronoun second-person singular stressed)
uw (formal personal possessive pronoun second-person singular stressed)
uwe (formal personal possessive predicative pronoun second-person)
u (formal personal possessive predicative pronoun reflexive second-person)
zich (formal personal possessive predicative pronoun reflexive second-person)
uwer (archaic formal genitive personal predicative pronoun second-person)
uws (archaic formal genitive personal predicative pronoun second-person)
hij (masculine personal pronoun singular stressed subjective third-person)
ie (masculine personal pronoun singular subjective third-person unstressed)
hem (masculine objective personal pronoun singular stressed third-person)
'm (masculine objective personal pronoun singular third-person unstressed)
zijn (masculine personal possessive pronoun singular stressed third-person)
z'n (masculine personal possessive pronoun singular third-person unstressed)
zijne (masculine personal possessive predicative pronoun third-person)
zich (masculine personal possessive predicative pronoun reflexive third-person)
zijner (archaic genitive masculine personal predicative pronoun third-person)
zijns (archaic genitive masculine personal predicative pronoun third-person)
zij (feminine personal pronoun singular stressed subjective third-person)
ze (feminine personal pronoun singular subjective third-person unstressed)
haar (feminine objective personal pronoun singular stressed third-person)
h'r (feminine objective personal pronoun singular third-person unstressed)
'r (feminine objective personal pronoun singular third-person unstressed)
d'r (feminine objective personal pronoun singular third-person unstressed)
haar (feminine personal possessive pronoun singular stressed third-person)
h'r (feminine personal possessive pronoun singular third-person unstressed)
'r (feminine personal possessive pronoun singular third-person unstressed)
d'r (feminine personal possessive pronoun singular third-person unstressed)
hare (feminine personal possessive predicative pronoun third-person)
zich (feminine personal possessive predicative pronoun reflexive third-person)
harer (archaic feminine genitive personal predicative pronoun third-person)
haars (archaic feminine genitive personal predicative pronoun third-person)
het (neuter personal pronoun singular stressed subjective third-person)
't (neuter personal pronoun singular subjective third-person unstressed)
het (neuter objective personal pronoun singular stressed third-person)
't (neuter objective personal pronoun singular third-person unstressed)
zijn (neuter personal possessive pronoun singular stressed third-person)
z'n (neuter personal possessive pronoun singular third-person unstressed)
zijne (neuter personal possessive predicative pronoun third-person)
zich (neuter personal possessive predicative pronoun reflexive third-person)
zijner (archaic genitive neuter personal predicative pronoun third-person)
zijns (archaic genitive neuter personal predicative pronoun third-person)
wij (first-person personal plural pronoun stressed)
we (first-person personal plural pronoun unstressed)
ons (first-person personal plural pronoun stressed)
onze (first-person personal plural pronoun stressed)
onze (first-person personal plural possessive predicative pronoun)
ons (first-person personal plural possessive predicative pronoun reflexive)
onzer (archaic first-person genitive personal plural predicative pronoun)
onzes (archaic first-person genitive personal plural predicative pronoun)
jullie (personal plural pronoun second-person stressed)
je (personal plural pronoun second-person unstressed)
je (personal plural possessive predicative pronoun reflexive second-person)
gij (archaic dialectal personal plural pronoun second-person stressed)
ge (archaic dialectal personal plural pronoun second-person unstressed)
u (archaic dialectal personal plural pronoun second-person stressed)
uw (archaic dialectal personal plural pronoun second-person stressed)
uwe (archaic dialectal personal plural possessive predicative pronoun second-person)
u (archaic dialectal personal plural possessive predicative pronoun reflexive second-person)
uwer (archaic dialectal genitive personal plural predicative pronoun second-person)
uws (archaic dialectal genitive personal plural predicative pronoun second-person)
u (formal personal plural pronoun second-person stressed)
uw (formal personal plural pronoun second-person stressed)
uwe (formal personal plural possessive predicative pronoun second-person)
u (formal personal plural possessive predicative pronoun reflexive second-person)
zich (formal personal plural possessive predicative pronoun reflexive second-person)
uwer (archaic formal genitive personal plural predicative pronoun second-person)
uws (archaic formal genitive personal plural predicative pronoun second-person)
zij (personal plural pronoun stressed third-person)
ze (personal plural pronoun third-person unstressed)
hen (personal plural pronoun stressed third-person)
hun (personal plural pronoun stressed third-person)
hunne (personal plural possessive predicative pronoun third-person)
zich (personal plural possessive predicative pronoun reflexive third-person)
hunner (archaic genitive personal plural predicative pronoun third-person)
huns (archaic genitive personal plural predicative pronoun third-person)

From Old Dutch hin, from Proto-Germanic *himaz.


hen

nl-noun

hen f (plural hennen, diminutive hennetje n, masculine haan)

hennen (plural)
hennetje (diminutive neuter)
haan (masculine)

Afrikaans: hen

Jersey Dutch: hän

From Middle Dutch henne, from Old Dutch *henna, from Proto-West Germanic *hannju, from Proto-Germanic *hanjō, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n- (“to sing”).

hen, female chicken; female of a related species

a female of the species of birds brooding on the ground

(figuratively) 'bird', colloquial term for a human female


hen

Chosen in an online poll by Transgender Netwerk Nederland in 2016. The alternative die arose from the same poll.

(gender-neutral, nonstandard) they (singular) (subject pronoun). A gender-neutral singular third-person personal pronoun.

(gender-neutral, nonstandard) them (singular) (object pronoun). A gender-neutral singular third-person personal pronoun.


hen

enm-noun

hen (plural hennes or hennen, genitive hennes or henne)

hennes (plural)
hennen (plural)
hennes (genitive)
henne (genitive)

English: hen

Scots: hen

Yola: hen, hin

From Old English henn, from Proto-West Germanic *hannju, from Proto-Germanic *hanjō.


chick

en-noun

chick (plural chicks or (obsolete) chicken)

chicks (plural)
chicken (obsolete plural)

From Middle English chicke, chike, variation of chiken (“chicken", also "chick”), from Old English ċicen, ċycen (“chicken”). Sense of "young woman" dates to at least 1860 (compare chit (“young, pert woman”)). More at chicken.

The Aldis lamp flashes at the underside of each aircraft. It shows that the gear is down. Diegal is relaxing. This is such low responsibility, easy night duty. All the “chicks” (fighter aircraft) are home to roost except one.

2004, Joe Welzen, The Gutsy Stomach Walker, page 50:

(military, slang) A friendly fighter aircraft.


chick

en-verb

chick (third-person singular simple present chicks, present participle chicking, simple past and past participle chicked)

chicks (present singular third-person)
chicking (participle present)
chicked (participle past)
chicked (past)

plowing in his oats with a very feet furrow; and, after they have “chicked” but before they appear aboveground

1795, William Marshall, The Rural Economy of Norfolk:

(obsolete) To sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.


chick

Borrowed from Hindustani چق (ciq) / चिक (cik), ultimately from Persian چق (čeq).

1890, Rudyard Kipling, Letter to William Canton, 5 April, 1890, in Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis (eds.) Writings on writing by Rudyard Kipling, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 34, https://books.google.ca/books?id=-AQStA5QMjwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Then, through a cautiously lifted chick, the old scene stands revealed […]

It is not uncommon at meal-time to see the table servants chasing the sparrows about the room, endeavouring to drive them out while some one holds up the "chick" or bamboo net which covers the doorway.

1905, A. C. Newcombe, chapter VII, in Village, Town, and Jungle Life in India, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 106:

[…] at this time of day all the verandas were curtained with green bamboo chicks.

1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 2”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:

Outside I could hear the bamboo chick tapping on the door like a blind man's stick on a kerbstone.

1999, Kevin Rushby, chapter 10, in Chasing the Mountain of Light: Across India on the Trail of the Koh-i-Noor Diamond, New York: St. Martin's Press, page 216:

(India, Pakistan) A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.


gosling

→ Irish: góislín

From Late Middle English goslyng (“gosling”), alteration (due to Middle English goos (“goose”)) of earlier gesling (“gosling”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse gæsling, géslingr (“gosling”), from gás (“goose”) + -lingr (“-ling”), equivalent to goose + -ling. Cognate with Danish gæsling (“gosling”), Swedish gässling (“gosling”). Compare also Low German gossel, gössel (“gosling”), German Gänslein (“gosling”).

These Aments (we must no longer call them catkins) are composed both of male and female flowers; what Henry calls goslings in spring are the Aments of the willow tree ; his green goslings are female Aments , and , when mature , have the appearance of little tufts of wool, which appearance is caused by the downy material that crowns their feeds;

1797, Botanical Dialogues, Between Hortensia and Her Four Children, page 8:

When the oak puts on his goslings grey 'Tis time to sow barley night or day.

1893, “Tree Proverbs”, in The Journal of Education, volume 37, page 170:

The common Sallow or Goat Willow (Salix caprea) forms a small bush in rough places and the hollows left by old gravel-pits. It produces the “goslings” which children are fond of gathering at Easter .

1901, Edward North Buxton, Epping Forest, page 116:

In the afternoon: cut back the crack willow around the pool; the fluffy flowers fall on the water. Locally, the flowers are known as 'goslings'. Water. It has no motion of its own; it is the mechanic betrayer of other forces. the breeze gently drifts the goslings to the far shore.

2018, John Lewis-Stempel, The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood:

(dated) A catkin on willows, nut trees, and pines.


doe

en-noun

doe (countable and uncountable, plural doe or does)

From Middle English do, from Old English dā (“female deer”), from Proto-West Germanic *daijā, from Proto-Germanic *dajjǭ (“female deer, mother deer”), from Proto-Germanic *dajjaną (“to suckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck (milk), to suckle”).
Cognate with Scots da, dae (“female deer”), Alemannic German tē (“doe”), Danish då (“deer, doe”), Sanskrit धेनु (dhenú, “cow, milk-cow”), Old English dēon (“to suckle”), Old English delu (“teat”). Related also to female, filial, fetus.

der

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


buck

From Middle English bukke, bucke, buc, from Old English buc, bucc, bucca (“he-goat, stag”), from Proto-West Germanic *bukk, *bukkō, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz, *bukkô (“buck”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“ram”). Doublet of puck (billy goat).
Currency-related senses hail from American English, a clipping of buckskin as a unit of trade among Indians and Europeans in frontier days (attested from 1748).
The idea of rigidly standing implements is instilled by Dutch bok (“sawhorse”) as in zaagbok (“sawbuck”).
The sense of an object indicating someone’s turn then occurred in American English, possibly originating from the game poker, where a knife (typically with a hilt made from a stag horn) was used as a place-marker to signify whose turn it was to deal. The place-marker was commonly referred to as a buck, which reinforced the term “pass the buck” used in poker, and eventually a silver dollar was used in place of a knife, which also led to a dollar being referred to as a buck.

Swankey of the Body Guard himself, that dangerous youth, and the greatest buck of all the Indian army now on leave, was one day discovered by Major Dobbin tête-à-tête with Amelia, and describing the sport of pig-sticking to her with great humour and eloquence […]

1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 60, in Vanity Fair:

A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.


kip

nl-noun

kip f (plural kippen, diminutive kippetje n or kipje n)

kippen (plural)
kippetje (diminutive neuter)
kipje (diminutive neuter)

Petjo: kip (archaic)

→ Loup A: kipkip

→ Mohawk: kítkit

→ Oneida: kítkit

→ Mohegan-Pequot: kikipus

Nederlandsche vogelen
Nicoline van der Sijs

Possibly from an imitative birdcall. Not found in Middle Dutch or other Germanic languages. Displaced the older term hen in northern Dutch around the 18th century.
The policeman sense might be from French "poulet", refering to police station in Paris that was built over a former farm.

onomatopoeic

imitative

(chiefly Netherlands) a chicken, Gallus gallus domesticus


poke

From Middle English poken, perhaps from Middle Dutch poken or Middle Low German poken, both from Proto-West Germanic *pukōn or similar, which is itself of uncertain origin, but may be from an imitative Proto-Germanic root *puk-. Doublet of poach.

imitative

better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick

better than a poke in the eye with a rusty nail

better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick

better than a poke in the eye with a shitty stick

Well then, I declare, I'd rather see Miss Lawton in that old poke – old as it is! –than in the finest new bonnet the Squire's lady ever wore.

1857, William Platt, Mothers and sons, page 190:


root

en-verb

root (third-person singular simple present roots, present participle rooting, simple past and past participle rooted)

roots (present singular third-person)
rooting (participle present)
rooted (participle past)
rooted (past)

From Middle English wrōten (“to dig with the snout”), from Old English wrōtan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrōtan, from Proto-Germanic *wrōtaną (“to dig out, to root”). Related to Old English wrōt (“snout; trunk”). Loss of initial w- probably due to influence from the related noun (Etymology 1).

furgar

coarse slang: to have sexual intercourse

(equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.

搶口 /抢口

of a horse: to tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards


aries

la-noun

ariēs m (genitive arietis); third declension

ariēs (canonical masculine)
arietis (genitive)
ariēs (nominative singular)
arietēs (nominative plural)
arietis (genitive singular)
arietum (genitive plural)
arietī (dative singular)
arietibus (dative plural)
arietem (accusative singular)
arietēs (accusative plural)
ariete (ablative singular)
arietibus (ablative plural)
ariēs (singular vocative)
arietēs (plural vocative)

Aromanian: areati

Champenois: aroi

Corsican: arghjetu

Franco-Provençal: arêt

Istro-Romanian: arete

Ligurian: ajou (Genoan)

Megleno-Romanian: ăreati, ręti

Romanian: arete

→ Catalan: ariet

→ English: Aries

→ Italian: ariete

→ Portuguese: aríete

→ Spanish: ariete

From Proto-Italic *arjēts ~ *erjēts (compare Umbrian 𐌄𐌓𐌉𐌄𐌕𐌖 (erietu)), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₁r-i-(e)t- (“young domesticated caprine”). Cognate with Old Irish heirp, erb (“kid”), Ancient Greek ἔριφος (ériphos, “kid”), displaying a different suffix, and perhaps Old Armenian որոջ (oroǰ, “lamb”), երինջ (erinǰ, “heifer”). However, as the cognates demonstrate, this has the characteristics of a substrate word.

der

cum mare trux ariēs cornū dēcertat; at īdem

With [another] male, the fierce ram fights it out with his horn, but the same
[ram] is careful to spare the forehead of a beloved ewe.


Capricornus

/ˌkæpɹɪˈkɔːnəs/

/ˌkæpɹɪˈkɔːɹnəs/

From Middle English, borrowed from Latin Capricornus, from capra (“goat”) and cornū (“horn”).


piglet

From pig + -let (diminutive suffix). Attested from 1855. Displaced Old English fearh.

Very little was this piglet,
And of course was not a big pig,

1855 December 10, “Mother Goose in Trochaics”, in Buffalo Morning Express, Buffalo, NY, page 4:


sheepfold

Inherited from Middle English shepefald, perhaps from Late Old English sċēapa falde (literally “sheep's fold”), equivalent to sheep + fold.

inh

If civilized life had covered over the ancient verities, Dumuzi learns in his tragic death that the sheepfold is still there to reclaim him.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 180:


nos

csb-noun

nos m inan (diminutive nosk, related adjective nosowi)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s
Proto-Balto-Slavic *nasús
Proto-Slavic *nosъ
Kashubian nos
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *nosъ.

etymon

(anatomy) nose (protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell)

brush bow (front part of the sled's skid is slightly bent upwards)


nos

pl-noun

nos m inan (diminutive nosek, augmentative nochal or nosisko, related adjective nosowy)

nosek (diminutive)
nochal (augmentative)
nosisko (augmentative)
nosowy (adjective)
nos (nominative singular)
nosy (nominative plural)
nosa (genitive singular)
nosów (genitive plural)
nosowi (dative singular)
nosom (dative plural)
nos (accusative singular)
nosy (accusative plural)
nosem (instrumental singular)
nosami (instrumental plural)
nosie (locative singular)
nosach (locative plural)
nosie (singular vocative)
nosy (plural vocative)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s
Proto-Balto-Slavic *nasús
Proto-Slavic *nosъ
Old Polish nos
Polish nos
Inherited from Old Polish nos.

etymon

(anatomy) nose (protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell, sometimes of animals)

(by extension) nose (tip of an object, usually pointed)

toe cap (long elongated section of a shoe for a toe)

(obsolete) collar (part of an oil lamp where the wick comes out)

(Middle Polish) nostril of a fish or other aquatic swamp animal


nos

nos (indefinite nominative singular)
nos (genitive indefinite singular)
nosen (definite nominative singular)
nosens (definite genitive singular)
nosar (indefinite nominative plural)
nosars (genitive indefinite plural)
nosarna (definite nominative plural)
nosarnas (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse nǫs, from Proto-Germanic *nasō, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.

noshjul
nosewheel


lamb

en-noun

lamb (countable and uncountable, plural lambs or (both dialectal) lamber or lambren)

lambs (plural)
lamber (dialectal plural)
lambren (dialectal plural)

From Middle English lamb, from Old English lamb, from Proto-West Germanic *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁l̥h₁onbʰos, enlargement of *h₁elh₁én, ultimately from *h₁el-.
See also Dutch lam, German Lamm, Bavarian Lamperl, Danish lam, Swedish lamm, Finnish lammas, Scottish Gaelic lon (“elk”), Ancient Greek ἔλαφος (élaphos, “red deer”). More at elk.

cog

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

one may as well hang for a sheep as a lamb

Mary had a little lamb, its fleece as white as snow.

(finance, slang) One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.

Holonym: Lambily

Alternative form: Lamb

Part of me revels in the campiness of Mariah’s butterfly metaphors and puppies-and-kittens existence. […] But I also genuinely love her music, including this album. I’m one of her lambs.

Her latest album, “Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel,” is her best work yet, a warmer and more subtle album that makes her more relatable to those of us who aren’t Mariah die-hards—or “lambs,” as she refers to them.

2010 February 15, Greg Kot, “Mimi cuts loose: Mariah Carey concert at Chicago Theatre shows that the diva can laugh at herself”, in Chicago Tribune, 163rd year, number 46, section 3, page 6:

This year, Ms. Carey debuted a new Las Vegas revue, and, to celebrate, a group of 36 “lambs,” mostly in their 30s and 40s, boarded a party bus and cruised the Vegas strip for about three hours.

2019 January 3, Rich Juzwiak, “In Praise of Their Diva”, in The New York Times, section D, page 1:

But when I saw Mariah in Detroit last year during the Caution World Tour, I was a proud lamb in my tour T-shirt, my very adult body suddenly transformed into my 14-year-old self when she emerged onstage.

2020 February 25, Chris Azzopardi, “I Love You (But Do You Love Mariah Carey?)”, in The New York Times:

Pride Month begins June 1, and Mariah Carey is giving her lambs plenty of new clothes to celebrate.

2022, “Mariah Carey releases her exclusive Pride merchandise”, in WRMF:

(slang) A fan of American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer Mariah Carey (born 1969).


lamb

fo-noun

lamb n (genitive singular lambs, plural lomb)

lambs (genitive singular)
lomb (plural)
lamb (indefinite nominative singular)
lambið (definite nominative singular)
lomb (indefinite nominative plural)
lombini (definite nominative plural)
lamb (accusative indefinite singular)
lambið (accusative definite singular)
lomb (accusative indefinite plural)
lombini (accusative definite plural)
lambi (dative indefinite singular)
lambinum (dative definite singular)
lombum (dative indefinite plural)
lombunum (dative definite plural)
lambs (genitive indefinite singular)
lambsins (definite genitive singular)
lamba (genitive indefinite plural)
lambanna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz.

(playing cards, stýrivolt) seven of the chosen cards (trump seven)


lamb

is-noun

lamb n (genitive singular lambs, nominative plural lömb)

lambs (genitive singular)
lömb (nominative plural)
lamb (indefinite nominative singular)
lambið (definite nominative singular)
lömb (indefinite nominative plural)
lömbin (definite nominative plural)
lamb (accusative indefinite singular)
lambið (accusative definite singular)
lömb (accusative indefinite plural)
lömbin (accusative definite plural)
lambi (dative indefinite singular)
lambinu (dative definite singular)
lömbum (dative indefinite plural)
lömbunum (dative definite plural)
lambs (genitive indefinite singular)
lambsins (definite genitive singular)
lamba (genitive indefinite plural)
lambanna (definite genitive plural)


lamb

enm-noun

lamb (plural lambren or lamber or lambes)

lambren (plural)
lamber (plural)
lambes (plural)

English: lamb

Scots: lam, lamb

Yola: lhawm, lowem

From Old English lamb, from Proto-West Germanic *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz.


lamb

lambru (nominative plural)
lamb (nominative singular)
lambru (nominative plural)
lamb (accusative singular)
lambru (accusative plural)
lambes (genitive singular)
lambra (genitive plural)
lambe (dative singular)
lambrum (dative plural)
lomb (nominative singular)
lombur (nominative plural)
lomberu (nominative plural)
lomb (accusative singular)
lombur (accusative plural)
lomberu (accusative plural)
lombur (genitive singular)
lombra (genitive plural)
lombur (dative singular)
lombrum (dative plural)

Middle English: lamb, lomb, lambe

English: lamb

Scots: lam, lamb


lamb

lambs (genitive)
lǫmb (plural)
lamb (indefinite nominative singular)
lambit (definite nominative singular)
lǫmb (indefinite nominative plural)
lǫmbin (definite nominative plural)
lamb (accusative indefinite singular)
lambit (accusative definite singular)
lǫmb (accusative indefinite plural)
lǫmbin (accusative definite plural)
lambi (dative indefinite singular)
lambinu (dative definite singular)
lǫmbum (dative indefinite plural)
lǫmbunum (dative definite plural)
lambs (genitive indefinite singular)
lambsins (definite genitive singular)
lamba (genitive indefinite plural)
lambanna (definite genitive plural)

non-decl-blank-full

lamb

Icelandic: lamb

Faroese: lamb

Norn: lamb

desc

Norwegian Nynorsk: lamb, lam; (dialectal) låm

Old Swedish: lamb

Swedish: lamm, lamb

Old Danish: lamb

Danish: lam

Norwegian Bokmål: lam

Gutnish: lamb

Scanian: lǫm


membrane

Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin membrāna (“skin or membrane that covers parts of the body”), from membrum (“a limb or member of the body”) + -āna. Doublet of membrana.

af

(anatomy, zootomy) A flexible enclosing or separating tissue forming a plane or film and separating two environments.

A mechanical, thin, flat flexible part that can deform or vibrate when excited by an external force.

A flexible or semiflexible covering or waterproofing whose primary function is to exclude water.

(biology) A microscopic double layer of lipids and proteins forming the boundary of cells or organelles.


pero

pérko (diminutive)
pírko (diminutive)
pero (nominative singular)
pera (nominative plural)
pera (genitive singular)
per (genitive plural)
peru (dative singular)
perům (dative plural)
pero (accusative singular)
pera (accusative plural)
pero (singular vocative)
pera (plural vocative)
peru (locative singular)
perech (locative plural)
perem (instrumental singular)
pery (instrumental plural)


pero

pèro (canonical neuter)
пѐро (Cyrillic)
pero (nominative singular)
pera (nominative plural)
pera (genitive singular)
pera (genitive plural)
peru (dative singular)
perima (dative plural)
pero (accusative singular)
pera (accusative plural)
pero (singular vocative)
pera (plural vocative)
peru (locative singular)
perima (locative plural)
perom (instrumental singular)
perima (instrumental plural)


pero

sk-noun

pero n (genitive singular pera, nominative plural perá, genitive plural pier, declension pattern of mesto)

pera (genitive singular)
perá (nominative plural)
pier (genitive plural)
mesto (declension-pattern-of)
pero (nominative singular)
perá (nominative plural)
pera (genitive singular)
pier (genitive plural)
peru (dative singular)
perám (dative plural)
pero (accusative singular)
perá (accusative plural)
pere (locative singular)
perách (locative plural)
perom (instrumental singular)
perami (instrumental plural)


pero

perọ̑ (canonical neuter)
pero (nominative singular)
peresi (dual nominative)
peresa (nominative plural)
pero (accusative singular)
peresi (accusative dual)
peresa (accusative plural)
peresa (genitive singular)
peres (dual genitive)
peres (genitive plural)
peresu (dative singular)
peresoma (dative dual)
peresom (dative plural)
peresu (locative singular)
peresih (dual locative)
peresih (locative plural)
peresom (instrumental singular)
peresoma (dual instrumental)
peresi (instrumental plural)

Declension of pero (neuter, s-stem)

perutnina

perutničke


kid

en-noun

kid (countable and uncountable, plural kids)

From Middle English kide, from Old Norse kið (“young goat”), from Proto-Germanic *kidją, *kittīną (“goatling, kid”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰaydn-, *ǵʰaydn- (“goat”) or Proto-Indo-European *gidʰ- (“kid, goatling, little goat”). Compare Swedish and Danish kid, German Kitz and Kitze, Albanian kedh and kec.
Sense of child since 1590s as cant, since 1840s in informal use.

der

is that what the kids are calling it these days

Only '90s kids will remember this toy.

He's been living in Los Angeles for years now, but he's a Florida kid.

(informal) A child (usually), teenager, or young adult; a juvenile.

(informal) A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area.

No, kid, you didn't do anything wrong; they did!

Here's looking at you, kid.

1942, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casablanca, spoken by Rick (Humphrey Bogart):

(in the vocative) Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.

I have three pairs of kid gloves. I've had kid mittens before from the Christmas tree, but never real kid gloves with five fingers.

1912, Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs: Letter 3:

So saying, he gathered together, and brought to a flame, the decaying brands which lay scattered on the ample hearth; took from the larger board a mess of pottage and seethed kid, placed it upon the small table at which he had himself supped, and without waiting the Jew's thanks, went to the other side of the hall;—[…].

1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 85–86:

A young goat.
(uncountable) The meat of a young goat.


煙草

/jɛn⁵⁵ t͡sʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/iɛn⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰau⁵³/

/iɛn³³ t͡sʰau⁵⁵⁴/

/iɛn⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰau⁵³/

/iɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰau⁵³/

/iɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰau⁴¹/

/i⁵⁵ t͡sʰɔ²¹/

/jɛn⁵⁵ t͡sʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/iɛn⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰau⁵³/

/iɛn³³ t͡sʰau⁵⁵⁴/

/iɛn⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰau⁵³/

/iɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰau⁵³/

/iɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰau⁴¹/

/i⁵⁵ t͡sʰɔ²¹/

煙草製品

烟草制品


煙草

煙草 (canonical)
ensō (romanization)
ensau (romanization)
えんさう (hiragana historical)


タバコ

タバコ (canonical)
たばこ (canonical)
tabako (romanization)

→ Early Modern Korean: 담파고 (tamphakwo)

→ Ainu: タンパク (tampaku)

ja:たばこ ja:タバコ


ter

From Proto-Albanian *taura, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.

dem ter


ter

From Proto-Albanian *tarsja, from *torseje, from Proto-Indo-European *torséyeti (“to make dry”), from *ters- (“dry”). Cognate to Sanskrit तृष्यति (tṛṣyati), Latin torreo, Old Norse þerra.


zaino

es-adj

zaino (feminine zaina, masculine plural zainos, feminine plural zainas)

zaina (feminine)
zainos (masculine plural)
zainas (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Arabic سَاحِم (sāḥim, “blackened”).

bor+

—¿Qué tal los toros?—les preguntó un cochero al cruzar a nuestro lado. —¡Finos, finos! Hay uno negro, zaino, de mucho cuidado.

1889, Armando Palacio Valdés, La hermana San Sulpicio:

(of horses or cattle) chestnut (of a dark, reddish-brown color)


ren

pl-noun

ren m animal (female equivalent reniferzyca)

reniferzyca (feminine)
ren (nominative singular)
reny (nominative plural)
rena (genitive singular)
renów (genitive plural)
renowi (dative singular)
renom (dative plural)
rena (accusative singular)
reny (accusative plural)
renem (instrumental singular)
renami (instrumental plural)
renie (locative singular)
renach (locative plural)
renie (singular vocative)
reny (plural vocative)

Borrowed from North Germanic. Compare Norwegian Bokmål rein, Swedish ren.

caribou, reindeer (Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer)


bok

nl-noun

bok m (plural bokken, diminutive bokje n)

bokken (plural)
bokje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: bok
→ Xhosa: ibhokhwe

Negerhollands: bok

Sranan Tongo: boko, bokoboko

Aukan: boko boko

From Middle Dutch boc, from Old Dutch buc, from Proto-West Germanic *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz.


mos

Inherited from Latin morsus (“a bite”), from mordeō (“bite”).


bos

la-noun

bōs m or f (genitive bovis); irregular, third declension

bōs (canonical feminine masculine)
bovis (genitive)
bōs (nominative singular)
bovēs (nominative plural)
bovis (genitive singular)
boum (genitive plural)
bovum (genitive plural)
boverum (genitive plural)
bovī (dative singular)
bōbus (dative plural)
būbus (dative plural)
bovibus (dative plural)
bovem (accusative singular)
bovēs (accusative plural)
bove (ablative singular)
bovīd (ablative singular)
bōbus (ablative plural)
būbus (ablative plural)
bovibus (ablative plural)
bōs (singular vocative)
bovēs (plural vocative)

Balkan-Romance:

Aromanian: bou

Megleno-Romanian: bou

Romanian: bou

Dalmatian:

bu

Italo-Romance:

Corsican: boiu

Italian: bove, bue

Sicilian: voi

Padanian:

Emilian: beu, bò

Friulian: bo

Ligurian: beu

Lombard: beu, bò, (alpine) beuiv

Piedmontese: beu, bò

Romagnol: bò, bo

Romansch: bov

Venetan: bo

Northern Gallo-Romance:

Bourguignon: beu

Franco-Provençal: bôf

Bressan: bœuf

Savoyard: buef

Old French: buef

French: bœuf

→ English: beef

→ Portuguese: bife

→ Spanish: bife

Southern Gallo-Romance:

Aragonese: bue, uei, buei

Catalan: bou

desctree

Old Occitan: bou, bueu
Auvergnat: beu, bueu
Gascon: buèu, bueu, beu, bieu, büu
Languedocien: buòu, biòu
Provençal: buou, bou
Vivaro-Alpine: buou

Ibero-Romance:

Old Leonese: buee

Asturian: bue, güe, buoi, buei, güei

Leonese: bué, boi, buei, güé, güei

Mirandese: bui

Old Galician-Portuguese: boi
Fala: boi
Galician: boi
Portuguese: boi

Old Spanish: buey
Ladino: buey
Spanish: buey

Insular Romance:

desc

Sardinian: boe, foe, voe (Logudorese-Nuorese), boi (Campidanese), boi, boe (Logudorese-Nuorese) (Campidanese)

Borrowings:

→ Esperanto: bovo

Irregular, for the expected **vōs/**ūs, accusative **vom, oblique stem **vov-, from Proto-Italic *gʷōs, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws, which also gave Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs), Sanskrit गो (go) (nominative singular gaúḥ), and English cow.
Most likely a borrowing from Sabellic (Oscan-Umbrian), attested as Umbrian bum (acc.sg.), bue (abl.sg.), buo (gen.pl.), buf (acc.pl.) all spelling /bō-/. This was likely motivated by the fact that the expected form would have produced an undesirable homonymic clash: with vōs (“you”) in the nominative and with ovis (“sheep”) in the oblique. It's unclear whether the borrowing included the entire paradigm, or just the initial consonant.

Hoc iuncti boves, hoc paratus equus, hoc data arma denuntiant.

The yoked oxen, the harnessed steed, the gift of arms, proclaim this fact.

head of cattle (cow, bull, steer, or ox)


tik

tika (definite singular)
tiken (definite singular)
tiker (indefinite plural)
tikene (definite plural)


tik

tika (definite singular)
tiker (indefinite plural)
tikene (definite plural)


tik

tik (indefinite nominative singular)
tiks (genitive indefinite singular)
tiken (definite nominative singular)
tikens (definite genitive singular)
tikar (indefinite nominative plural)
tikars (genitive indefinite plural)
tikarna (definite nominative plural)
tikarnas (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse tík (“bitch”). Compare English tyke.


she-wolf

From Middle English she wolf; equivalent to she- + wolf.

In some trepidation the priest and his friend accompanied the wolf to his den, where lay a she-wolf on the point of death.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 212:


turkey-hen

Coordinate term: turkeycock


tomcat

From Tom + cat, popularised by The Life and Adventures of a Cat (1760), by an anonymous author, in which the male cat was called Tom.

(Southeast Asia) An insect of the order Coleoptera referring to certain species of rove beetles, particularly in the genus Paederus. Known for secreting a potent irritant, pederin, which can cause severe skin irritation and blistering when contacted.


eend

nl-noun

eend f (plural eenden, diminutive eendje n)

eenden (plural)
eendje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: eend

Jersey Dutch: êntśe (from the diminutive)

From Middle Dutch ent, eent, from Old Dutch ened, from Proto-West Germanic *anad, from Proto-Germanic *anadz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₂ts. Cognate with German Ente.
The sense “Citroën 2CV” is shared with German Ente.

Coordinate term: woerd

A duck, waterfowl of the family Anatidae excluding the subfamily Anserinae; in non-scientific usage the term may be reserved for only the smaller (not goose-like) members of the Anatidae or reserved for females only.


snare

From Middle English snare, from Old English snearu, sneare (“a string; cord”), from Proto-Germanic *snarhǭ (“a sling; loop; noose”). Cognate with Old Norse snara. Also related to German Schnur and Dutch snaar, snoer.

inh

(veterinary) A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.


hus

husí (adjective relational)
hus (nominative singular)
husi (nominative plural)
husi (genitive singular)
husí (genitive plural)
husi (dative singular)
husiam (dative plural)
hus (accusative singular)
husi (accusative plural)
husi (locative singular)
husiach (locative plural)
husou (instrumental singular)
husami (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gǫ̑sь, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.


lira

Borrowed from Maltese lira, from Italian lira, from Latin lībra.

(historical) lira (former unit of currency of Malta)


imp

en-verb

imp (third-person singular simple present imps, present participle imping, simple past and past participle imped)

imps (present singular third-person)
imping (participle present)
imped (participle past)
imped (past)

From Middle English impen, ympen (“to plant; (figuratively) to bury; to graft; to add to, insert, put into, set in; to mend (a falcon’s feather) by attaching a new feather on to the broken stump”), from Old English impian, ġeimpian (“to graft”), from Proto-West Germanic *impōn (“to graft”), from Vulgar Latin *imputō (“to graft”), from Ancient Greek ἔμφῠτος (émphŭtos, “implanted; planted”), from ἐμφῠ́ω (emphŭ́ō, “to implant”, from ἐν- (en-, prefix meaning ‘in’) + φῠ́ω (phŭ́ō, “to bring forth, produce; to grow”, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to appear; to become; to grow”))) + -τος (-tos).

af

ultimately from Proto-Indo-European <i class="Latn mention" lang="ine-pro">*bʰuH-</i> (“to appear; to become; to grow”)

I have known feathers so imped that the eye could not discern the place of juncture, and it was difficult even to discover it by passing the thumb-nail down the shaft of the imped feather.

1900, E[dward] B[lair] Michell, “Accidents and Maladies”, in The Art and Practice of Hawking, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 229:

Bird rehabilitators borrow a trick from falconry with the age-old process of imping flight feathers on to a damaged bird.

2004, Roseann Tomko, Illinois Audubon, Wayne, Ill.: Illinois Audubon Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19, column 1:

[page 246, column 1] Feather damage is a serious problem for any bird. […] Repairing or imping broken feathers is a very good option in these cases and may save months or even a year in captivity. […] [page 250, column 1] Note that a feather can usually only be imped once since it is very difficult or impossible to remove and then replace an imping needle from within a feather shaft after it has been glued in place.

2016, David E. Scott, “Feathers and Aging”, in Raptor Medicine, Surgery and Rehabilitation, 2nd edition, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, Boston, Mass.: CABI, →ISBN, pages 246 and 250:

(falconry, veterinary medicine) To engraft (a feather) on to a broken feather in a bird's wing or tail to repair it; to engraft (feathers) on to a bird, or a bird's wing or tail.


gris

head

gris c (singular definite grisen, plural indefinite grise)

grisen (definite singular)
grise (indefinite plural)
gris (indefinite nominative singular)
grisen (definite nominative singular)
grise (indefinite nominative plural)
grisene (definite nominative plural)
gris' (genitive indefinite singular)
grisens (definite genitive singular)
grises (genitive indefinite plural)
grisenes (definite genitive plural)


gris

grisen (definite singular)
griser (indefinite plural)
grisene (definite plural)


gris

grisen (definite singular)
griser (indefinite plural)
grisar (indefinite plural)
grisene (definite plural)
grisane (definite plural)
ein Gris (indefinite singular)
Grisen (definite singular)
Griser (indefinite plural)
Griserne (definite plural)
griser (indefinite plural)
grisir (indefinite plural)
griserne (definite plural)
grisine (definite plural)
grisene (definite plural)
grisar (indefinite plural)
grisane (definite plural)
griser [grisar] (indefinite plural)
grisene [grisane] (definite plural)
ein gris (indefinite singular)
grisen (definite singular)
grisi (indefinite plural)
grisin (definite plural)


gris

gris (indefinite nominative singular)
gris (genitive indefinite singular)
grisen (definite nominative singular)
grisens (definite genitive singular)
grisar (indefinite nominative plural)
grisars (genitive indefinite plural)
grisarna (definite nominative plural)
grisarnas (definite genitive plural)

Grisens ungar kallas (gris)kultingar / spädgrisar
Baby pigs ["the pig's young" – calling animals bebisar (“babies”) is unidiomatic in Swedish] are called piglets


oca

Inherited from Old Catalan oca, from Late Latin auca, syncopated from *avica, from classical Latin avis (“bird”). Compare Occitan auca, French oie, Spanish oca.


oca

it-noun

oca f (plural oche, diminutive ochina or ochétta, augmentative ocóna, pejorative ocàccia)

oche (plural)
ochina (diminutive)
ochétta (diminutive)
ocóna (augmentative)
ocàccia (pejorative)

Inherited from Late Latin auca, syncope of *avica, from Classical Latin avis (“bird”). Compare Catalan, Spanish, Venetan, and Sicilian oca, French oie, Occitan auca, Romansch auca, ocha, Friulian ocje, Dalmatian jauca.

cog

(figurative) goose, silly goose, airhead (female)


oca

Inherited from Late Latin auca, syncope of *avica, from Classical Latin avis (“bird”).


oca

Inherited from Late Latin auca (“goose”), syncope of *avica, from Latin avis (“bird”).

inh+

(chiefly Spain) goose, especially of the domestic European variety and with a white or grey plumage


gos

gōs (canonical feminine)
gōs (nominative singular)
gēs (nominative plural)
gōs (accusative singular)
gēs (accusative plural)
gēs (genitive singular)
gōse (genitive singular)
gōsa (genitive plural)
gēs (dative singular)
gōsum (dative plural)

desctree

Middle English: goos, goce, gos, gose, gosse
English: goose
Scots: guse

From Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰans-.

Exeter Book:
Hwīlum iċ grǣde swā gōs.
Sometimes I cry like a goose.


gos

gọ̑s (canonical feminine)
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gós (nominative singular)
gosí (dual nominative)
gosí (nominative plural)
gosí (genitive singular)
gosí (dual genitive)
gosí (genitive plural)
gósi (dative singular)
goséma (dative dual)
gosém (dative plural)
gós (accusative singular)
gosí (accusative dual)
gosí (accusative plural)
gósi (locative singular)
goséh (dual locative)
goséh (locative plural)
gosjó (instrumental singular)
goséma (dual instrumental)
gosmí (instrumental plural)


marionette

Borrowed from French marionnette. The word originally meant a small statue of the Virgin Mary, then also a puppet of her used in religious theatrical presentations, finally generalised to any puppet.

If you think we are worked by strings,
Like a Japanese marionette,
You don't understand these things:
It is simply Court etiquette.

1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC:

A puppet, usually made of wood, which is animated by the pulling of strings.


bride

→ Portuguese: brida

Inherited from Middle French bride, from Old French bride (“rein, bridle”), from Middle High German brīdel (“rein, bridle”), from Old High German brīdil (“rein, bridle”) (compare also Old High German brittil (“rein, strap”), French bretelle), from Proto-West Germanic *brigdil (“bridle”).
Compare Spanish brida, Italian briglia. More at bridle.

der

à cheval donné on ne regarde pas la bride


neigh

From Middle English neighen, from Old English hnǣġan, from Proto-Germanic *hnaijan, from Proto-Germanic *hnajjaną (“to neigh”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch neien, Middle Low German neigen, Swedish gnägga, Icelandic hneggja.


neigh

en-verb

neigh (third-person singular simple present neighs, present participle neighing, simple past and past participle neighed)

neighs (present singular third-person)
neighing (participle present)
neighed (participle past)
neighed (past)

"I went into the stable first to see to the horse, and found him neighing and waiting for his hay, so I went up into the hay-loft for an armful[.]"

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 33:

To make a sound similar to a horse's cry.

hirnuma

to make a sound similar to a horses' cry

Yes, yes, 'tis he. I will assure you Uncle, the very he, the he your Wisdom plaid withal, I thank you for't, neighed at his Nakedness, and made his Cold and Poverty your Pastime; […]

c. 1614, John Fletcher, “Wit Without Money, a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i:


grunt

From Middle English grunten, from Old English grunnettan (“to grunt”), from Proto-West Germanic *grunnattjan, from Proto-Germanic *grunnatjaną (“to grunt”), frequentative of Proto-Germanic *grunnōną (“to grunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrun- (“to shout”).
Cognate with German grunzen (“to grunt”), Danish grynte (“to grunt”). The noun senses are all instances of zero derivation from the verb.

der

Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae.


aid

en-noun

aid (countable and uncountable, plural aids)

From Middle English aide, eide, ayde, from Old French eide, aide, from aidier, from Latin adiūtō, adiūtāre (“to assist, help”). Cognates include Spanish ayuda, Portuguese ajuda and Italian aiuto.

aide

aide-de-camp; obsolete except in sense of

(countable, chiefly in the plural, horse racing) The rider's use of hands, legs, voice, etc. to control the horse.


bumblebee

1520s from bumble + bee, replacing Middle English humbul-be. Merged with Middle English bombeln (“to boom, buzz”), in the late 14th century.

Any of several species of large bee in the genus Bombus.

ผึ้งมีขนตัวใหญ่ที่ส่งเสียงหึ่งๆ

pêung mee kŏn dtua yài tĕe sòng sĭang hèung-hèung


allowance

en-noun

allowance (countable and uncountable, plural allowances)

→ Cebuano: alawans

→ Malay: élaun

From Middle English allouance, from Old French alouance.
Morphologically allow + -ance.

On the Flat, an apprentice jockey starts with an allowance of 7 lb.

(horse racing) A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.


knot

From Middle English knotte, from Old English cnotta, from Proto-West Germanic *knottō, from Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (“knot”); probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnod- (“to bind”).
See also Old High German knoto (German Knoten, Dutch knot, Low German Knütte; also Old Norse knútr > Danish knude, Swedish knut, Norwegian knute, Faroese knútur, Icelandic hnútur; also Latin nōdus and its Romance descendants. Doublet of knout, node, and nodus.
* (unit of speed): From the practice of counting the number of knots in the log-line (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every ¹⁄₁₂₀ of a mile.

In the early stages of reentry, due to the extremely-rarefied air at these altitudes, the space shuttle flew at only one to a few knots equivalent airspeed, even when its actual speed was many thousands of knots.

(aviation) A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.


apian

en-adj

apian (comparative more apian, superlative most apian)

more apian (comparative)
most apian (superlative)

19th century, from Latin apiānus, from apis (“bee”).

In fact, apian, formican, vespal, and termital government is not a monarchy, but a pure democracy. The queens of ants, bees, wasps, and termites wear the crown of maternity — no other.

1904, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 108, page 559:


cattleman

A man who raises or tends cattle, as:
A cattle rancher.


boar

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

From Middle English bor, boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-West Germanic *bair.

And drivers on local roads have encountered traveling boars, which can run at up to 30 miles an hour, according to one local resident, who said a friend’s car collided with a 132-pound animal, totaling the vehicle, as well as killing the boar.

2024 August 24, Stephen Castle, “The Loch Ness Monster Has Company in the Neighborhood: Wild Boars”, in The New York Times:

A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.

"Bull hogs," or boars, which are uncastrated male pigs, tend to have a dark, gamy flesh not appreciated by everyone.

2000 May 24, Jon Nordheimer, “Hunting for Pigs, And Florida's Past”, in The New York Times:


trace

From Middle English trace, traas, from Old French trace (“an outline, track, trace”), from the verb (see below).

der

An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.

printed circuit board
printed circuit board

(electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.

لِوْحَة دَارَاتُ مَطَبُوعَة

(electronics) electric current-carrying conductive pathway

(geometry) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.


apa

Inherited from Corsican apa, from Vulgar Latin *apa, reshaping of Classical Latin apis (“bee”).


capră

capre (plural)
capră (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
capra (accusative definite nominative singular)
capre (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
caprele (accusative definite nominative plural)
capre (indefinite singular)
caprei (definite singular)
caprelor (definite plural)
capră (singular vocative)
capro (singular vocative)
caprelor (vocative)

Inherited from Latin capra, from caper, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros.


vacă

vaci (plural)
vacă (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
vaca (accusative definite nominative singular)
vaci (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
vacile (accusative definite nominative plural)
vaci (indefinite singular)
vacii (definite singular)
vacilor (definite plural)
vacă (singular vocative)
vaco (singular vocative)
vacilor (vocative)


giddyup

en-verb

giddyup (third-person singular simple present giddyups, present participle giddyuping or giddyupping, simple past and past participle giddyuped or giddyupped)

giddyups (present singular third-person)
giddyuping (participle present)
giddyupping (participle present)
giddyuped (participle past)
giddyuped (past)
giddyupped (participle past)
giddyupped (past)

Not expecting any traffic, he giddyuped them onto the main road.

2011, Janet Dailey, Foxfire Light, →ISBN, page 30:

To cause a horse or similar mount to speed up.


kuda

ms-noun

kuda (Jawi spelling کودا, plural kuda-kuda, informal 1st possessive kudaku, 2nd possessive kudamu, 3rd possessive kudanya)

کودا (Jawi)
kuda-kuda (plural)
kudaku (first-person informal possessive)
kudamu (possessive second-person)
kudanya (possessive third-person)

> Indonesian: kuda (inherited)

→ Bau Bidayuh: kuda

→ Maguindanao: kuda

→ Maranao: koda'

→ Central Melanau: kudak

→ Tetum: kuda

→ Tausug: kura'

Horsepower; a unit for measuring the power of an engine or motor.


tow

en-noun

tow (countable and uncountable, plural tows)

rare, some parts of the UK and Australia

From Middle English touw, from Old English tow- (“spinning”) (in compounds, e.g. towcræft, towhūs, towlic), from Proto-Germanic *tawwą; compare Old Norse tó (“uncleansed wool”), Dutch touw (“rope”). Perhaps cognate with Old English tawian (“prepare for use”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰𐌽 (taujan, “do, make”).

And the strong shall be as towe, and the maker of it as a sparke, and they shall both burne together, and none shall quench them.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 1:31:

An untwisted bundle of fibres such as cellulose acetate, flax, hemp or jute.


steer

en-verb

steer (third-person singular simple present steers, present participle steering, simple past and past participle steered)

steers (present singular third-person)
steering (participle present)
steered (participle past)
steered (past)

Inherited from Middle English steeren, steren, stiren, sturen, steoren, from Old English stēoran, stīeran, stȳran (“to steer; guide a vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *stiurijan (“to steer”), from Proto-Germanic *stiurijaną (“to steer”).
The noun is from Middle English steere, stere (“rudder”), steor, from Old English stēor, stȳr (“steering; guidance; direction”). Compare Dutch stuur, German Steuer, Icelandic stýri.

inh

(transitive) To direct a group of animals.


steer

I tried to give you the steer, but I guess I didn't get it over. Everybody knew it but you.

1939, Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties:

(informal) A suggestion about a course of action.

намек

informal: suggestion about course of action


steer

Inherited from Middle English steer, ster, from Old English stēor (“a young bull or cow; steer”), from Proto-Germanic *steuraz (“bull; steer”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)táwros (“wild bull; aurochs”). Cognate with Dutch stier, German Stier, Icelandic stjór, Latin taurus (“bull”), Greek ταύρος (távros). Doublet of tur and Taurus.

He counted the cattle over and over. It diverted him to speculate as to how much weight each of the steers would probably put on by spring.

1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!, chapter 2:

The castrated male of cattle, especially one raised for beef production.


steer

Alternative form of stere (“rudder, control”)


lehmä

lehmä (nominative singular)
lehmät (nominative plural)
lehmä (accusative nominative singular)
lehmät (accusative nominative plural)
lehmän (accusative genitive singular)
lehmät (accusative genitive plural)
lehmän (genitive singular)
lehmien (genitive plural)
lehmäin (genitive plural rare)
lehmää (partitive singular)
lehmiä (partitive plural)
lehmässä (inessive singular)
lehmissä (inessive plural)
lehmästä (elative singular)
lehmistä (elative plural)
lehmään (illative singular)
lehmiin (illative plural)
lehmällä (adessive singular)
lehmillä (adessive plural)
lehmältä (ablative singular)
lehmiltä (ablative plural)
lehmälle (allative singular)
lehmille (allative plural)
lehmänä (essive singular)
lehminä (essive plural)
lehmäksi (singular translative)
lehmiksi (plural translative)
lehmättä (abessive singular)
lehmittä (abessive plural)
lehmin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
lehmäni (nominative singular)
lehmäni (nominative plural)
lehmäni (accusative nominative singular)
lehmäni (accusative nominative plural)
lehmäni (accusative genitive singular)
lehmäni (accusative genitive plural)
lehmäni (genitive singular)
lehmieni (genitive plural)
lehmäini (genitive plural rare)
lehmääni (partitive singular)
lehmiäni (partitive plural)
lehmässäni (inessive singular)
lehmissäni (inessive plural)
lehmästäni (elative singular)
lehmistäni (elative plural)
lehmääni (illative singular)
lehmiini (illative plural)
lehmälläni (adessive singular)
lehmilläni (adessive plural)
lehmältäni (ablative singular)
lehmiltäni (ablative plural)
lehmälleni (allative singular)
lehmilleni (allative plural)
lehmänäni (essive singular)
lehminäni (essive plural)
lehmäkseni (singular translative)
lehmikseni (plural translative)
lehmättäni (abessive singular)
lehmittäni (abessive plural)
lehmineni (comitative plural)
lehmäsi (nominative singular)
lehmäsi (nominative plural)
lehmäsi (accusative nominative singular)
lehmäsi (accusative nominative plural)
lehmäsi (accusative genitive singular)
lehmäsi (accusative genitive plural)
lehmäsi (genitive singular)
lehmiesi (genitive plural)
lehmäisi (genitive plural rare)
lehmääsi (partitive singular)
lehmiäsi (partitive plural)
lehmässäsi (inessive singular)
lehmissäsi (inessive plural)
lehmästäsi (elative singular)
lehmistäsi (elative plural)
lehmääsi (illative singular)
lehmiisi (illative plural)
lehmälläsi (adessive singular)
lehmilläsi (adessive plural)
lehmältäsi (ablative singular)
lehmiltäsi (ablative plural)
lehmällesi (allative singular)
lehmillesi (allative plural)
lehmänäsi (essive singular)
lehminäsi (essive plural)
lehmäksesi (singular translative)
lehmiksesi (plural translative)
lehmättäsi (abessive singular)
lehmittäsi (abessive plural)
lehminesi (comitative plural)
lehmämme (nominative singular)
lehmämme (nominative plural)
lehmämme (accusative nominative singular)
lehmämme (accusative nominative plural)
lehmämme (accusative genitive singular)
lehmämme (accusative genitive plural)
lehmämme (genitive singular)
lehmiemme (genitive plural)
lehmäimme (genitive plural rare)
lehmäämme (partitive singular)
lehmiämme (partitive plural)
lehmässämme (inessive singular)
lehmissämme (inessive plural)
lehmästämme (elative singular)
lehmistämme (elative plural)
lehmäämme (illative singular)
lehmiimme (illative plural)
lehmällämme (adessive singular)
lehmillämme (adessive plural)
lehmältämme (ablative singular)
lehmiltämme (ablative plural)
lehmällemme (allative singular)
lehmillemme (allative plural)
lehmänämme (essive singular)
lehminämme (essive plural)
lehmäksemme (singular translative)
lehmiksemme (plural translative)
lehmättämme (abessive singular)
lehmittämme (abessive plural)
lehminemme (comitative plural)
lehmänne (nominative singular)
lehmänne (nominative plural)
lehmänne (accusative nominative singular)
lehmänne (accusative nominative plural)
lehmänne (accusative genitive singular)
lehmänne (accusative genitive plural)
lehmänne (genitive singular)
lehmienne (genitive plural)
lehmäinne (genitive plural rare)
lehmäänne (partitive singular)
lehmiänne (partitive plural)
lehmässänne (inessive singular)
lehmissänne (inessive plural)
lehmästänne (elative singular)
lehmistänne (elative plural)
lehmäänne (illative singular)
lehmiinne (illative plural)
lehmällänne (adessive singular)
lehmillänne (adessive plural)
lehmältänne (ablative singular)
lehmiltänne (ablative plural)
lehmällenne (allative singular)
lehmillenne (allative plural)
lehmänänne (essive singular)
lehminänne (essive plural)
lehmäksenne (singular translative)
lehmiksenne (plural translative)
lehmättänne (abessive singular)
lehmittänne (abessive plural)
lehminenne (comitative plural)
lehmänsä (nominative singular)
lehmänsä (nominative plural)
lehmänsä (accusative nominative singular)
lehmänsä (accusative nominative plural)
lehmänsä (accusative genitive singular)
lehmänsä (accusative genitive plural)
lehmänsä (genitive singular)
lehmiensä (genitive plural)
lehmäinsä (genitive plural rare)
lehmäänsä (partitive singular)
lehmiään (partitive plural)
lehmiänsä (partitive plural)
lehmässään (inessive singular)
lehmässänsä (inessive singular)
lehmissään (inessive plural)
lehmissänsä (inessive plural)
lehmästään (elative singular)
lehmästänsä (elative singular)
lehmistään (elative plural)
lehmistänsä (elative plural)
lehmäänsä (illative singular)
lehmiinsä (illative plural)
lehmällään (adessive singular)
lehmällänsä (adessive singular)
lehmillään (adessive plural)
lehmillänsä (adessive plural)
lehmältään (ablative singular)
lehmältänsä (ablative singular)
lehmiltään (ablative plural)
lehmiltänsä (ablative plural)
lehmälleen (allative singular)
lehmällensä (allative singular)
lehmilleen (allative plural)
lehmillensä (allative plural)
lehmänään (essive singular)
lehmänänsä (essive singular)
lehminään (essive plural)
lehminänsä (essive plural)
lehmäkseen (singular translative)
lehmäksensä (singular translative)
lehmikseen (plural translative)
lehmiksensä (plural translative)
lehmättään (abessive singular)
lehmättänsä (abessive singular)
lehmittään (abessive plural)
lehmittänsä (abessive plural)
lehmineen (comitative plural)
lehminensä (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *lehmä, from Proto-Finno-Permic *lešmä, of unknown further origin. Cognate to Estonian lehm and Mordvinic words meaning "horse" (Erzya лишме (lišme), Moksha лишме (lišme)).

Bos primigenius taurus
Bos primigenius taurus#Translingual