burp

en-verb

burp (third-person singular simple present burps, present participle burping, simple past and past participle burped)

burps (present singular third-person)
burping (participle present)
burped (participle past)
burped (past)

Originally from American English, of imitative origin.

onom

imitative

Usually baby doesn't need to be burped if (1) he consistently takes his usual amount of formula, gradually increasing his capacity as the weeks go by and (2) if he hasn't spit up when put down unburped after most feedings.

1968, Robert Webster Watson, Why Not Have Your Second Baby First?, page 46:

(transitive) To cause someone (such as a baby) to burp.


plant

cy-noun

plant m (collective, singulative plentyn)

plentyn (singulative)
plant
blant (soft)
mhlant
phlant

From Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta.


baby

→ Cornish: babi

→ Danish: baby

→ Dutch: baby

→ Finnish: baby

→ French: baby

desctree

→ French: bébé
→ Finnish: bébé
→ Portuguese: bebé, bebê (Brazil)
→ Romanian: bebe
→ Spanish: bebé

→ German: Baby
→ Lower Sorbian: baby
→ Upper Sorbian: baby

→ Interlingua: baby

→ Italian: baby

→ Norwegian Bokmål: baby

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: baby

→ South Slavey: bebí

→ Spanish: baby

→ Swedish: baby

→ Vietnamese: bé bi

From Middle English baby, babie (“baby”), a diminutive form of babe (“babe, baby”), equivalent to babe + -y/-ie (“endearing and diminutive suffix”). Perhaps ultimately imitative of baby talk (compare babble).

suf

Any very young animal, especially a vertebrate; many species have specific names for their babies, such as kittens for the babies of cats, puppies for the babies of dogs, and chicks for the babies of birds. See :Category:Baby animals for more.

גּוּר

and there are special terms for certain animals


baby

en-adj

baby (comparative babier or babyer or baby-er, superlative babiest or babyest or baby-est)

babier (comparative)
babyer (comparative)
baby-er (comparative)
babiest (superlative)
babyest (superlative)
baby-est (superlative)

Spider. Here let us begin at the beginning, at the babyest of books for Edith's nursery.

She let it drop out of her sleeve, and it was two Chings — the dearest, littlest, babyest, tiny Chings — little balls of fur! And she ran away, and daddy's father picked them up, and put them in his pockets, and brought them home, […]

1894, Edith E. Cuthell, Two Little Children and Ching, page 107:

Lemon-juice for ink spots: Not many weeks ago the babyest member of our household - perhaps moved by a hereditary tendency toward ink - slinging - divided the contents of an ink bottle impartially between the tiles of the bath-room floor ...

1908, Marion Harland, Housekeeper's Guide and Family Physician, page 98:

"There's a babier baby than Mike," she said. "But you will see her to-morrow. Aren't we rich? Come in and see Matilda - you won't find her much changed. It's so absurd to see her with all these children."

1908, Mary Findlater, Jane Helen Findlater, Crossriggs, page 25:

Now, we all believe in national defense, but we also believe in peacetime activity, and my personal idea about aviation is that it is still in its absolute “babyest” type of infancy, that it is nothing even approaching what it will be even 10 years [from now].

1936, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs, To Promote the National Defense by Stengthening the Air Reserve, Hearings ..., on H.R. 4348, 12241, Feb 27, April 22, 1936, page 31:

A doll show held the attention of children at Allen as a special feature during the week. Winners were:[…]baby-est doll, Betty McQueary.

1937 August 7, “Recreation Activities in City Attain New Peak in Past Week”, in The State Journal, eighty-third year, Lansing, Mich., section “Doll Show at Allen”, page 2, column 7:

He’ll [Joseph H. Ball] be our baby senator for the next two years. Senator Rush D. Holt of West Virginia will be his baby rival briefly, but Rush is a lame duck. He’ll be out of the picture at the end of the year and Joe will be the baby-est of them all.

1940 October 22, Charles P. Stewart, “Washington At A Glance”, in The Evening Independent, volume LXXIV, number 130, Massillon, Oh., page five, column 2:

The victorious individuals were as follows: Doll Contest—[…]“baby-est,” 1st, Mary Grew, 2nd, Susan Shamlian;

1960 August 4, Herb Smith, “Recreation In Cedar Grove”, in Verona-Cedar Grove Times, volume XII, number 31, Verona, N.J., page 26, column 2:

One of them, Allure Potemkin (and don’t you wish that was your name?), hikes up her slip and does a riotous dance number called Baby Legs. Leona Brausen, whose own dimpled gams — “baby-er than ever” as she says — inspired the role, is back onstage Saturday to dance the dance for the last time.

2007 August 2, Liz Nicholls, “Gala to mark Teatro’s entry into the quarter-century club”, in Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alta., page D3, column 1:

(in the comparative or superlative) Like or pertaining to a baby, in size or youth; small, young.


baby

nl-noun

baby m (plural baby's or babies, diminutive baby'tje n)

baby's (plural)
babies (plural)
baby'tje (diminutive neuter)


baby

baby m anim or (canonical neuter)
baby (nominative singular)
babyja (dual nominative)
babyje (nominative plural)
babyja (genitive singular)
babyjowu (dual genitive)
babyjow (genitive plural)
babyjoju (dative singular)
babyjoma (dative dual)
babyjam (dative plural)
babyja (accusative singular)
babyjowu (accusative dual)
babyje (accusative plural)
babyjow (accusative plural)
babyjom (instrumental singular)
babyjoma (dual instrumental)
babyjami (instrumental plural)
babyju (locative singular)
babyjoma (dual locative)
babyjach (locative plural)


baby

English: baby, babby, babbie (see there for further descendants)

Scots: babbie


girl

en-noun

girl (countable and uncountable, plural girls)

desctree

Jamaican Creole: gyal, gal
→ English: gal; gyal
→ Icelandic: gella
→ Japanese: ギャル (gyaru)
→ English: gyaru

Tok Pisin: gel

→⇒ Finnish: kiltsi

→ French: girl; gow

→ German: Girl

→ Hungarian: görl

→ Japanese: ガール (gāru)

Etymological Dictionary of the German Language

de:Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Middle English gerle, girle, gyrle (“young person (boy or girl)”), perhaps from Old English *gyrele, from Proto-West Germanic *gurilā, from a zero-grade diminutive of *gaurā (“young child”) + *-ilā. Ultimately of unknown origin. Doublet of gal/gyal and gyaru.

'Now, girls,' continued Healey, 'you're very high-spirited and that's as it should be but I won't have you getting out of hand.[…]' […] Setting a spatted foot on the bench that ran down the middle of the changing-room with elegant distain, Adrian began to flip through a pile of Y-fronts and rugger shorts with his cane.

1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section I, pages 5–6:

(colloquial) A term of endearment. (see usage notes)


child

en-noun

child (plural children or (dialectal or archaic) childer)

children (plural)
childer (archaic dialectal plural)

adult

antonym(s) of “person below the age of adulthood”

parent

antonym(s) of “data item, process or object in a subordinate role”

From Middle English child, from Old English ċild, from Proto-West Germanic *kilþ, *kelþ, from Proto-Germanic *kelþaz (“womb; fetus”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵelt- (“womb”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”).
Cognate with Danish kuld (“brood, litter”), Swedish kull (“brood, litter”), Icelandic kelta, kjalta (“lap”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹 (kilþei, “womb”), Sanskrit जर्त (jarta), जर्तु (jártu, “vulva”).

der

[ˈt͡ʃaɪ̯.ɫ̩d]

[t͡ʃəɪ̯(ə)ɫd]

offspring and Thesaurus:son and Thesaurus:daughter

call someone everything but a child of God

it is a wise child that knows his own father

Regular chores can be appropriate for both children and adolescents, given age-appropriate limits on difficulty level and time on task.

en:kid aged 0 to 18 years
en:kid aged 1 to 11 years

(broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).

(pediatrics, sometimes, in a stricter sense) A youth aged 1 to 9 years, whereas neonates are aged 0 to 1 month, infants are aged 1 to 12 months, and adolescents are aged 10 to 20 years.


child

enm-noun

child (plural children or childre or child or childres, dative childe)

children (plural)
childre (plural)
child (plural)
childres (plural)
childe (dative)

English: child

Scots: child; chield

From Old English ċild, from Proto-Germanic *kelþaz.

A baby, infant, toddler; a person in infancy.

(Christianity) The Christ child; Jesus as a child.


chłopiec

chłopczyk (diminutive)
chłopiec (nominative singular)
chłopcy (nominative plural)
chłopce (derogatory nominative plural)
chłopca (genitive singular)
chłopców (genitive plural)
chłopcu (dative singular)
chłopcom (dative plural)
chłopca (accusative singular)
chłopców (accusative plural)
chłopcem (instrumental singular)
chłopcami (instrumental plural)
chłopcu (locative singular)
chłopcach (locative plural)
chłopcze (singular vocative)
chłopcy (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish chłopiec. By surface analysis, chłop + -iec.

(dated) boy (young male worker) [with na (+ accusative) ‘for what job’]


chłopak

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

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

ref

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

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

(dated) boy (young man performing menial work in some place or plant) [with na (+ accusative) ‘for what’]

(chiefly in the vocative) term of address towards a male seen lower in a hierarchy; boy


kind

kinden (definite singular)
kindar (indefinite plural)
kindane (definite plural)
kindet (definite singular)
kind (indefinite plural)
kinda (definite plural)

From Old Norse kind f, from Proto-Germanic *kinþiz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis. Akin to English kind.


boy

en-noun

boy (countable and uncountable, plural boys)

Jamaican Creole: bwoy

Sranan Tongo: boi, boy

→ Cebuano: boy

→ Chinese: boy

→ Dutch: boy
→ Indonesian: boi

→ French: boy

→ German: Boy

→ Hungarian: boy

→ Iraqi Arabic: بوي

→ Italian: boy

→ Japanese: ボーイ (bōi)

→ Polish: boy

→ Russian: бой (boj)

→ Spanish: boy

→ Swahili: boi

→ Tagalog: boy

→ Vietnamese: bồi

→ Welsh: boi

Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *bōjō
Old English *bōia
Middle English boye
English boy
From Middle English boy／boye (“servant, commoner, knave, boy”), from Old English *bōia (“boy”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōjō, from Proto-Germanic *bōjô (“younger brother, young male relation”), from Proto-Germanic *bō- (“brother, close male relation”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰā-, *bʰāt- (“father, elder brother, brother”).
Cognate with Scots boy (“boy”), West Frisian boai (“boy”), Dutch boi (“boy”), Low German Boi (“boy”), and probably to the Old English proper name Bōia. Also related to West Flemish boe (“brother”), Norwegian dialectal boa (“brother”), Dutch boef (“rogue, knave”), Bavarian Bua (“young boy, lad”), German Bube ("boy; knave; jack"; > English bub), Icelandic bófi (“rogue, crook, bandit, knave”). See also bully.

gloss

"boy; knave; jack"; > English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">bub</i>

boy

formerly, African male servant in colonies

mutil

male of any age, used as a friendly diminutive

all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

since Adam was an oakum boy in Chatham Dockyard

when Adam was an oakum boy in Chatham Dockyard

My Boy Stephen Grauener.

1625, W. Hawkins in Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes, Vol. I, iii, vii, 211

They picked out two of the strongest of the Boys (as they call the Men) about the place.

1834, Edward Markham, New Zealand or Recollections of It, section 72:

The blacks who work on a station or farm are always, like the blacks in the Southern States, called boys.

1876, Ebenezer Thorne, The Queen of the Colonies, or, Queensland as I Knew It, section 58:

From a domestic point of view the advent of the Chinese was a decided blessing, for, instead of the European ladies of the settlement having to do all their own work, they were able to employ a proper staff of Chinese boys.

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 233:

[In Shanghai,] The register clerk assigns you to a room, and instead of ‘Front!’ he shouts ‘Boy!’

1907 May 13, Evening Post, N.Y, section 6:

He thrust his head into the aisle. "Boy!" A Chinese in a white coat responded listlessly. "What will you have? Beer?"

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 521:

Aborigine Wally... described himself as ‘number one boy’ at the station.

1960 February 5, Northern Territory News, 5/5:

(now rare and usually offensive outside some Commonwealth nations) A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee, particularly:

(historical or offensive) A non-white male servant regardless of age, particularly as a form of address.

poika

affectionate term of address for male dog


lane

lȁne (canonical neuter)
ла̏не (Cyrillic)
lȁne (nominative singular)
lanad (nominative plural)
laneta (genitive singular)
lȁnādī (genitive plural)
lanetu (dative singular)
lanadi (dative plural)
lane (accusative singular)
lanad (accusative plural)
lane (singular vocative)
lanadi (plural vocative)
lanetu (locative singular)
lanadi (locative plural)
lanetom (instrumental singular)
lanađu (instrumental plural)
lanadi (instrumental plural)


nurse

→ Bengali: নার্স (narśo)

→ Cebuano: nars

→ Danish: nurse

→ Hausa: nâs

→ Hindi: नर्स (nars)

→ Indonesian: ners

→ Kalenjin: nas

→ Kamba: nasi

→ Limburgish: nurs

→ Luo: nas

→ Maltese: ners

→ Nepali: नर्स (narsa)

→ Romanian: nursă

→ Tagalog: nars

→ Urdu: نرس (nars)

→ Welsh: nyrs

From Middle English norice, from Old French norrice, from Late Latin nūtrīcia, noun based on Latin nūtrīcius (“that which nourishes”), from nūtrīx (“wet nurse”), from nūtriō (“to suckle”).

verpleegkundige

person trained to provide care for the sick


bet

becik (diminutive)
bet (nominative singular)
bety (nominative plural)
beta (genitive singular)
betu (genitive singular)
betów (genitive plural)
betowi (dative singular)
betom (dative plural)
bet (accusative singular)
bety (accusative plural)
betem (instrumental singular)
betami (instrumental plural)
becie (locative singular)
betach (locative plural)
becie (singular vocative)
bety (plural vocative)


spoon-feed

en-verb

spoon-feed (third-person singular simple present spoon-feeds, present participle spoon-feeding, simple past and past participle spoon-fed)

spoon-feeds (present singular third-person)
spoon-feeding (participle present)
spoon-fed (participle past)
spoon-fed (past)

(intransitive) To help somebody (usually a baby or elder) to eat using a spoon; to feed using a spoon.


bib

Originally verb sense “drink heartily”, from Middle English bibben, either from Latin bibō (“I drink”) or of imitative origin. Noun sense (clothing) presumably either because worn while drinking, or because the clothing itself “drinks up” spills.

An item of clothing for people (especially babies) tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating.

slabbetjie

item of clothing for protecting other clothes while eating


krok

csb-noun

krok m inan (diminutive kroczk, related adjective kroczny or krokòwi)

kroczk (diminutive)
kroczny (adjective)
krokòwi (adjective)
krok (nominative singular)
kroczi (nominative plural)
krokù (genitive singular)
kroków (genitive plural)
krokòwi (dative singular)
krokóm (dative plural)
krok (accusative singular)
kroczi (accusative plural)
krokã (instrumental singular)
krokama (instrumental plural)
krokù (locative singular)
krokach (locative plural)
krokù (singular vocative)
kroczi (plural vocative)


teen

Clipping of teenager. For more synonyms see at Thesaurus:teenager.

In the safety alert, the NTSB educates parents on the risks and outlines what they can do to protect their teens against marijuana-impaired driving. NTSB, NTSB Issues Safety Alert on Dangers of Marijuana for Teen Drivers, 18 July 2024

Europeans have more success with generational outreach, but they start with younger age groups and provide a greater variety of all-youth activities. Rather than giving up hope, the YCN redirected its focus from teens to twens, particularly ...

2003, James Woycke, Au Naturel: The History of Nudism in Canada, FCN, →ISBN, page 262:

We found that teen drivers and the public largely misunderstand the legal status of cannabis use and do not fully recognize the risks of cannabis-impaired driving.

2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022:

Synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old.


幼

Characters in the same phonetic series (幼) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 幺 (“tiny”) + 力 (“strength”). 幺 (OC *qiːw) may also act as a phonetic component.

Han compound

(literary, or in compounds) infant; young child


brat

en-noun

brat (countable and uncountable, plural brats)

Early Modern English (c. 1500) slang term meaning "beggar's child". Possibly from Scots bratchet (“bitch, hound”). Another possibility is that it was originally a dialectal word, from northern and western England and the Midlands, for a "makeshift or ragged garment," from Old English bratt (“cloak”), which is from a Celtic source (Old Irish brat (“cloak, cloth”)). In the sense "characteristic of a confident and assertive woman", coined by English singer and songwriter Charli XCX in her 2024 album Brat.

coinage

[She] had still on the rough worsted apron of nappy homespun wool, called a "brat".

1882, John Strathesk, “pp. 135”, in Blinkbonny^([The English Dialect Dictionary... brat]):

(obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.


男

男 (canonical)
otoko (romanization)
wotoko (romanization)
をとこ (hiragana historical)

男の目には糸を引け女の目には鈴を張れ

otoko no me ni wa ito o hike onna no me ni wa suzu o hare

⟨woto₂ko₁⟩ → */wotəkʷo/ → /wotoko/ → /otoko/
From Old Japanese.
Derived from おと (oto, “young?”, cognate with Old Japanese 復つ (wotu → otsu, “to become young again”)) + 子 (ko, “child”).
Compare 少女 (otome, “young woman”).

com

cognate with Old Japanese <i class="Jpan mention" lang="ojp">復つ</i> (wotu → otsu, “to become young again”)

男は閾を跨げば七人の敵あり

otoko wa shikii o matageba shichinin no teki ari


男

/dam/ → /damʉ/ → /daɴ/
From Middle Chinese 男 (MC nom).
The 漢音 (kan'on) reading, so likely a later borrowing.

a young man, especially one who reached adulthood


dummy

мор

bridge: the partner of the winning bidder, who shows his or her hand

Don't be such a dummy!

The baby wants her dummy.

Then on the fifth day, at the first sleep of the day, remove the dummy and follow my settling guide for your baby′s age. You should throw all her dummies in the bin to ensure you are not tempted to use them again – even outside sleep times.

2006, Tizzie Hall, Save Our Sleep: A Parents′ Guide Towards Happy, Sleeping Babies from Birth to Two Years, MacMillan, published 2009, page 200:

No Fairy baby has ever been seen to suck its thumb or to use a dummy.

2008, Bern, Bern's Fairy Tales, page 15:

We′ve found that going cold turkey works best – you check that your baby isn't ill or teething, then throw all dummies away. When your baby cries for her dummy, you can look her in the eye and say, ‘It′s gone,’ and really mean it.

2011, Simone Cave, Caroline Fertleman, Baby to Toddler Month by Month, page 85:

(Australia, UK, New Zealand) A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier.

a dummy calf, lamb, or foal

(attributive) A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.


雛

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *zro): phonetic 芻 (OC *sʰro) + semantic 隹 (“bird”).


poppet

(engineering) An upright support or guide fastened at the bottom only.


boomerang child

en-noun

boomerang child (plural boomerang children)

/ˈbuːməɹæŋ ˌt͡ʃaɪld/

/ˈbuməɹæŋ ˌt͡ʃaɪld/

From boomerang + child, a reference to the ability of a boomerang to return to the thrower after being thrown.

It has been said that "when the going gets tough, the tough get going." But that saying doesn't set too well with today's generation of so-called "boomerang children." Chicago Sun-Times writer Ellen James Martin describes "boomerang children" as "grown offspring who move away from home for college, a job or marriage. Then something goes amiss and they're back home. Times are harsh. It's very expensive to live." [...] Not all "boomerang children" are young. The U.S. Census Bureau's study of Living Arrangements of Never-Married Adults In 1990 reports that 23 per cent of the 35–39 age group lived with their parents.

1991 December 2, “Sidney Poitier Blames Parents for Children who Don’t Know how to Survive Tough Times”, in Robert E[dward] Johnson, editor, Jet, volume 81, number 7, Chicago, Ill.: Johnson Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24:

Of course, in some homes there are, as my grandmother would say, "good and grown" children still living at home, and other children, now called "boomerang children," coming back home with their children.

2010, Barbara A. Moody-Hamilton, “Introduction”, in From the Cradle to the Crypt, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Red Lead Press, →ISBN, page xiii:

Although Christina's stepsister, Ashley, was successfully launched to college, the fact that she was then living at home with Shoshana made her launching incomplete and therefore she was a boomerang child. Liz's brother, David, could also have been considered a boomerang child. Although he still lived in his own apartment, he was dependent on his parents for financial support and therefore affected their plans as a couple.

2015, Judy Esposito, Abbi Hattem, “Families and the Family Life Cycle”, in Introduction to Family Counseling: A Case Study Approach, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publishing, →ISBN:

[W]e see the increase of the phenomenon of the "boomerang child," where young adults return to the parental home at least once after the initial departure. Returning to the parental home could have a variety of consequences for both the "boomerang child" and the family. Despite the fact that there have been numerous media and academic descriptions and depictions of these boomerang children, it could well be that these children feel to some extent disenfranchised, alone, and alienated from the rest of the world.

2016, D. Nicole Farris, “Introduction to Boomerang Children: Prevalence and Potential Questions”, in Boomerang Kids: The Demography of Previously Launched Adults (Springer Briefs in Population Studies), Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, section 1.1. (More about Boomerang Children), pages 3–4:

boomerang kid

(originally US, informal) Synonym of boomerang kid (“a young adult who has moved back into the parental home after a period of independence”)


puer

la-noun

puer m (genitive puerī, feminine puera); second declension

puerī (genitive)
puera (feminine)
puer (nominative singular)
puerī (nominative plural)
puerī (genitive singular)
puerōrum (genitive plural)
puerō (dative singular)
puerīs (dative plural)
puerum (accusative singular)
puerōs (accusative plural)
puerō (ablative singular)
puerīs (ablative plural)
puer (singular vocative)
puerī (plural vocative)

desc

→ English: puer, puer aeternus, puerile, puerilism, puerperium, puerility, puerperal, puerperous

→ Ido: puero

⇒ Romanian: prunc

From Proto-Italic *puweros, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂weros, from *peh₂w-. Cognate with Oscan 𐌐𐌖𐌂𐌋𐌖𐌌 (puglum), Ancient Greek παῖς (paîs, “boy”).


lad

From Middle English ladde (“foot soldier, servant; male commoner; boy”), from late Old English *ladda (attested in Old English personal byname Ladda), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Old Norse ladd (“hose, woolen stocking; sock”), which may have undergone semantic shift to mean a term of abuse (e.g. foolish youth, youngster of lower social status, etc.); thence by connotative amelioration coming to mean any young fellow. Compare Norwegian ladd (“rough sock, woolen or felt slipper”) and the -ladd in compounds Askeladd/Askeladden (a nickname in fairy tales, "Ash Lad") and tusseladd (“nincompoop”). See also Swedish ladder (“old shoes”), lodde (“Frisian shoe”), lädder (“socks”), all said to be related to Old Norse loðinn (“hairy, shaggy, woolly”), loddi (“shaggy dog”).

cog

Coordinate term: lass

How great is that danger, to which poor lads are now exposed, when placed on shipboard to learn the art of sailing! Five lads, training up for the seas, were now on board this ship; […]

1776, John Woolman, chapter XI, in A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences of that Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman, […] , Dublin: Printed by R. Jackson, page 209:

The lad, his son, had obtained a Jew's-harp, and learned to play upon it the profane airs of "Yankee Doodle," "Hail Columbia," "St. Patrick's Day," and "Auld Lang Syne."

1850, T. S. Arthur, “Deacon Smith and his Violin”, in Sketches of Life and Character, Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, →OCLC, page 70:

Coordinate term: ladette

I think he reckons he’s a bit of a lad.

Last night I was out drinking with the lads.

(British) A hedonistic or irresponsible young man; A Jack the lad.

Come here, lad, and help me shift these boxes.

A familiar term of address for a young man.


childish

en-adj

childish (comparative more childish, superlative most childish)

more childish (comparative)
most childish (superlative)

/ˈt͡ʃaɪldɪʃ/

From Middle English childisch, from Old English ċildisċ. By surface analysis, child + ish.

She remembered, too, when, after a long childish illness, her father had carried her in his arms to the garden, […]

1824, Susan Ferrier, The Inheritance, page 130:

As I walked to and fro daily between Southwark and Blackfriars, and lounged about at meal-times in obscure streets, the stones of which may, for anything I know, be worn at this moment by my childish feet, I wonder how many of these people were wanting in the crowd that used to come filing before me in review again, to the echo of Captain Hopkins’s voice!

1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:


baba

As one of the first utterances many babies are able to say, baba (like mama, papa, and dada) has come to be used in many languages as a term for various family members:
* father: Albanian, Arabic, Western Armenian, Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Greek, Marathi, Mingrelian, Nepali, Persian, Swahili, Turkish, Yoruba, Shona, Zulu
* grandmother: many Slavic languages (such as Bulgarian, Russian, Czech and Polish), Romanian, Yiddish, Japanese
* grandfather: Azerbaijani, Zulu (father, grandfather)
* baby: Afrikaans, Sinhala, Hungarian
These terms often continue to be used by English speakers whose families came from one of these cultures. In some cases, they may become more widely used in localities that have been heavily influenced by an immigrant community. Some senses were extensions of one of these family terms in the original languages ("old woman" from "grandmother", "holy man" from "father"). The "cake" sense comes through French, from Polish baba (“old woman”). The Middle Eastern word baba (as in Ali Baba) is rather a term of endearment, and is ultimately derived from Persian بابا (bābā, “father”) (from Old Persian pāpa; as opposed to the Arabic words أَبُو (ʔabū) and أَب (ʔab); see also Papak), and is linguistically related to the common European word papa and the word pope, having the same Indo-European origin. The Chinese word "baba", meaning father comes from 爸爸.

A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.


Bube

de-noun

Bube m (weak, genitive Buben, plural Buben, diminutive Bübchen n or Büblein n, feminine (rare) Bübin)

Buben (genitive)
Buben (plural)
Bübchen (diminutive neuter)
Büblein (diminutive neuter)
Bübin (feminine rare)
Bube (nominative singular)
Buben (definite nominative plural)
Buben (genitive singular)
Buben (definite genitive plural)
Buben (dative singular)
Buben (dative definite plural)
Buben (accusative singular)
Buben (accusative definite plural)

→ Esperanto: bubo

→ Hungarian: bubi

→ Ido: bubo

From Middle High German buobe (“knave”), from Old High German Buobo, a male name of unknown meaning. Cognate with Dutch boef (“villain”). Probably also related to boy; see there for more.


minor

From Middle English minor, menor, menour, etc., from Latin minor (“lesser; young; young person”) both directly and via Norman and Middle French menor, menour, etc. Doublet of minus but not mini-. Cognate with minister, minify, Minorca, Menshevik, and possibly minnow. Compare Latin minimum and minuō, Old High German minniro, Cornish minow.

byvak

subject of secondary undergraduate study

(Scots law, obsolete) An adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority.


minor

la-noun

minor m (genitive minōris); third declension

minōris (genitive)
minor (nominative singular)
minōrēs (nominative plural)
minōris (genitive singular)
minōrum (genitive plural)
minōrī (dative singular)
minōribus (dative plural)
minōrem (accusative singular)
minōrēs (accusative plural)
minōre (ablative singular)
minōribus (ablative plural)
minor (singular vocative)
minōrēs (plural vocative)

From Proto-Italic *minōs, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small, little”). Related to minuō (“to make smaller, to lessen; to grow less”).

der

… nunc fama minores / Italiam dixisse ducis de nomine gentem.

29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.532–533

now there is a rumor that a later people called the land Italy from the name of their leader.

person under age (e.g. 25 years old), minor

(poetic, in the plural) children; descendants, posterity


cot

Borrowed from Hindi खाट (khāṭ), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀔𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (khaṭṭā), from Sanskrit खट्वा (khaṭvā, “bedstead”).

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.


urchin

From Middle English yrchoun, irchoun (“hedgehog; sea urchin”), from Old Northern French irechon, from Vulgar Latin *ērīciōnem, from Latin ericius. Compare modern French hérisson, whence the English doublet herisson.

And like these fresh green things were the dozens of babies, tots, toddlers, noisy urchins, laughing girls, a whole multitude of children of one family. For Collier Brandt, the father of all this numerous progeny, was a Mormon with four wives.

1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 7, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:

And the urchins that stand with their thievish eyes / Forever on watch ran off each with a prize.

a. 1879, William Howitt, The Wind in a Frolic:

A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.

We'll dress [them] like urchins, ouphes, and fairies.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:

(obsolete) A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.


puella

la-noun

puella f (genitive puellae, masculine puellus); first declension

puellae (genitive)
puellus (masculine)
puella (nominative singular)
puellae (nominative plural)
puellae (genitive singular)
puellārum (genitive plural)
puellae (dative singular)
puellīs (dative plural)
puellam (accusative singular)
puellās (accusative plural)
puellā (ablative singular)
puellīs (ablative plural)
puella (singular vocative)
puellae (plural vocative)

Old French: polle

→ English: puella, ⇒ puella aeterna, puella publica, puellile, puelline

Venetan: putèła

From puellus (“a little boy”), contracted from puerulus (“little boy, little slave”), the diminutive of puer (“boy”).

parvola puella

pueri atque puellae

pueri innuptaeque puellae


childhood

en-noun

childhood (countable and uncountable, plural childhoods)

From Middle English childhode, childhod, from Old English ċildhād (“childhood”), equivalent to child + -hood. Compare dialectal Dutch kindheid (“childishness”), German Low German Kinnerheid (“childhood”), and German Kindheit (“childhood”).

cog

He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.

1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty.


sprout

From Middle English sproute, either from Middle English sprouten (“to sprout”) (see below); or from Middle Dutch sprute or Middle Low German sprûte (“sprout”), all related to Proto-West Germanic *spreutan. Doublet of spruit.

Oh my, how your sprouts have grown!


bundle of joy

Nature took its course, and Marie did give birth to a bundle of joy, but she soon discovered that motherhood was not all bliss.

2005, Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, Robert W. Ullman, Rage-Free Kids, Picnic Point Press, →ISBN, page 132:

(idiomatic) A newborn baby or child of any age.


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

She's a kid. It's normal for her to have imaginary friends.

“So you’ve got the kid,” said Sikes, when they had all reached the room: closing the door as he spoke. ¶ “Yes, here he is,” replied Nancy. ¶ “Did he come quiet?” inquired Sikes. ¶ “Like a lamb,” rejoined Nancy.

1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Wherein Oliver Is Delivered over to Mr. William Sikes”, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 12:

I said, “I’ll send the first sane soul I meet to keep you company.” As luck would have it, I never met one,—only kids, and a baker, who wouldn’t leave his cart, or take it with him either.

1897 March 13 – June 19, Richard Marsh [pseudonym; Richard Bernard Heldmann], “What the Tidings Were”, in The Beetle (The Adelphi Library; 4), London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, […], published 1920, →OCLC, book IV (In Pursuit), page 269:

"I should never dream of calling a kid like you a woman," said Digory loftily.

1955, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew, London: The Bodley Head, →OCLC:

‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You’re not dull enough! […] What about the kid’s clothes? I don’t suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn’t you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’

1963, Margery Allingham, “The Beanspiller”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 186:

Our kids are why all of you are in this room today. Our kids are why you wake up wondering how you'll make a difference and go to bed thinking about tomorrow's lesson plan. Our kids are why you walk into that classroom every day even when you're not getting the support, or the pay, or the respect that you deserve - because you believe that every child should have a chance to succeed; that every child can be taught.

2007 July 5, Barack Obama, Remarks of Senator Barack Obama to the National Education Association Annual Meeting:

She not my lover like "Billie Jean", but the kid is mine

2018, “March 14”, in Scorpion, performed by Drake:

Network Rail is now the biggest kid in the playground, so if it doesn't want to play it doesn't have to, and the trees still fall down every time someone gives a low pressure system a name.

2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 44:

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


love child

Nobody ever came to see her, nobody spoke of her, nobody cared about her. Mr Brass had said once, that he believed she was a ‘love-child’ (which means anything but a child of love).

1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 36, in The Old Curiosity Shop:

Love child, never meant to be / Love child, born in poverty

1968, “Love Child”, performed by The Supremes:

(euphemistic) A child born as a result of a romantic liaison between parents not married to one another; an illegitimate child.

извънбра́чно дете́

child born as a result of a romantic liaison between unmarried parents


perambulator

The reapers were slowly trooping back to their work. The nurse-girl slapped one of her charges and then began to push the perambulator up the hill.

1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

"That will be all this afternoon," he said to the nurse, who got up with the baby and decanted it into a perambulator which was standing in the fairway.

On Queen Victoria buying numerous perambulators in 1846, their popularity soared, especially among the affluent in society. Faced with carrying growing numbers of them, railways began charging separately for their carriage from the late 1850s. […] Perambulator tickets remained until the late 20th century, although they came to be seen as a restriction on family travel.

2023 October 18, Dr David Turner, “Family values...”, in RAIL, number 994, page 46:


tweenager

Blend of 'tween + teenager. Attested as early as the 1950s, but popularized in the late 20th or early 21st century.

Your eight to twelve year old is in the gray area between early childhood and the teen years. He is a child in the middle—a “tweenager.”

1994, Mary Manz Simon, How to Parent Your “Tweenager”, page 6:

A young person who is not yet a teenager (being less than thirteen years old), but starting to act like one: generally eight to twelve years old.


teenager

→ Danish: teenager

→ French: teenager

→ Japanese: ティーネージャー (tīnējā)

→ Korean: 틴에이저 (tineijeo)

→ Russian: тине́йджер (tinéjdžer)

→ Spanish: teenager

Most teenagers will undergo lots of changes before reaching adulthood.
Marco's main target market are late teenagers.

tiener

person aged between thirteen and nineteen


toddler

From toddle (“to walk unsteadily”) + -er – literally “one who walks unsteadily”, hence a young child.

I can't believe Vanessa's baby is now a toddler already!

One inexpensive possibility is to purchase a toddler seat that can be placed on your current carriage. There are seats especially designed for that purpose, with seat belts and all. Some toddlers enjoy their high perch, but safety is a concern with these seats.

1981 October 21, Joan Weiss, Your Second Child, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 250:

A young child who has started walking but not fully mastered it, typically between one and three years old.

ребёнок

начина́ющий ходи́ть

ползуно́к m (polzunók, literally “crawler”)


barn

English: barn (obsolete, dialectal)

Geordie English: bairn

Scots: bairn
→ English: bairn

Yola: barrn

Inherited from Old English bearn, from Proto-West Germanic *barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną.

Hit tidde after on a time · as tellus our bokes / as þis bold barn his beſtes · blybeliche keped[…]

c. 1335-1361, William of Palerne (MS. King's College 13), folio 6, recto, lines 198-199; republished as W. W. Skeat, editor, The Romance of William of Palerne, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1867, →OCLC, page 12:

Afterwards, as our books record, it happened one day that / while this brave child was peacefully looking after his animals […]


vauva

vauva (nominative singular)
vauvat (nominative plural)
vauva (accusative nominative singular)
vauvat (accusative nominative plural)
vauvan (accusative genitive singular)
vauvat (accusative genitive plural)
vauvan (genitive singular)
vauvojen (genitive plural)
vauvain (genitive plural rare)
vauvaa (partitive singular)
vauvoja (partitive plural)
vauvassa (inessive singular)
vauvoissa (inessive plural)
vauvasta (elative singular)
vauvoista (elative plural)
vauvaan (illative singular)
vauvoihin (illative plural)
vauvalla (adessive singular)
vauvoilla (adessive plural)
vauvalta (ablative singular)
vauvoilta (ablative plural)
vauvalle (allative singular)
vauvoille (allative plural)
vauvana (essive singular)
vauvoina (essive plural)
vauvaksi (singular translative)
vauvoiksi (plural translative)
vauvatta (abessive singular)
vauvoitta (abessive plural)
vauvoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
vauvani (nominative singular)
vauvani (nominative plural)
vauvani (accusative nominative singular)
vauvani (accusative nominative plural)
vauvani (accusative genitive singular)
vauvani (accusative genitive plural)
vauvani (genitive singular)
vauvojeni (genitive plural)
vauvaini (genitive plural rare)
vauvaani (partitive singular)
vauvojani (partitive plural)
vauvassani (inessive singular)
vauvoissani (inessive plural)
vauvastani (elative singular)
vauvoistani (elative plural)
vauvaani (illative singular)
vauvoihini (illative plural)
vauvallani (adessive singular)
vauvoillani (adessive plural)
vauvaltani (ablative singular)
vauvoiltani (ablative plural)
vauvalleni (allative singular)
vauvoilleni (allative plural)
vauvanani (essive singular)
vauvoinani (essive plural)
vauvakseni (singular translative)
vauvoikseni (plural translative)
vauvattani (abessive singular)
vauvoittani (abessive plural)
vauvoineni (comitative plural)
vauvasi (nominative singular)
vauvasi (nominative plural)
vauvasi (accusative nominative singular)
vauvasi (accusative nominative plural)
vauvasi (accusative genitive singular)
vauvasi (accusative genitive plural)
vauvasi (genitive singular)
vauvojesi (genitive plural)
vauvaisi (genitive plural rare)
vauvaasi (partitive singular)
vauvojasi (partitive plural)
vauvassasi (inessive singular)
vauvoissasi (inessive plural)
vauvastasi (elative singular)
vauvoistasi (elative plural)
vauvaasi (illative singular)
vauvoihisi (illative plural)
vauvallasi (adessive singular)
vauvoillasi (adessive plural)
vauvaltasi (ablative singular)
vauvoiltasi (ablative plural)
vauvallesi (allative singular)
vauvoillesi (allative plural)
vauvanasi (essive singular)
vauvoinasi (essive plural)
vauvaksesi (singular translative)
vauvoiksesi (plural translative)
vauvattasi (abessive singular)
vauvoittasi (abessive plural)
vauvoinesi (comitative plural)
vauvamme (nominative singular)
vauvamme (nominative plural)
vauvamme (accusative nominative singular)
vauvamme (accusative nominative plural)
vauvamme (accusative genitive singular)
vauvamme (accusative genitive plural)
vauvamme (genitive singular)
vauvojemme (genitive plural)
vauvaimme (genitive plural rare)
vauvaamme (partitive singular)
vauvojamme (partitive plural)
vauvassamme (inessive singular)
vauvoissamme (inessive plural)
vauvastamme (elative singular)
vauvoistamme (elative plural)
vauvaamme (illative singular)
vauvoihimme (illative plural)
vauvallamme (adessive singular)
vauvoillamme (adessive plural)
vauvaltamme (ablative singular)
vauvoiltamme (ablative plural)
vauvallemme (allative singular)
vauvoillemme (allative plural)
vauvanamme (essive singular)
vauvoinamme (essive plural)
vauvaksemme (singular translative)
vauvoiksemme (plural translative)
vauvattamme (abessive singular)
vauvoittamme (abessive plural)
vauvoinemme (comitative plural)
vauvanne (nominative singular)
vauvanne (nominative plural)
vauvanne (accusative nominative singular)
vauvanne (accusative nominative plural)
vauvanne (accusative genitive singular)
vauvanne (accusative genitive plural)
vauvanne (genitive singular)
vauvojenne (genitive plural)
vauvainne (genitive plural rare)
vauvaanne (partitive singular)
vauvojanne (partitive plural)
vauvassanne (inessive singular)
vauvoissanne (inessive plural)
vauvastanne (elative singular)
vauvoistanne (elative plural)
vauvaanne (illative singular)
vauvoihinne (illative plural)
vauvallanne (adessive singular)
vauvoillanne (adessive plural)
vauvaltanne (ablative singular)
vauvoiltanne (ablative plural)
vauvallenne (allative singular)
vauvoillenne (allative plural)
vauvananne (essive singular)
vauvoinanne (essive plural)
vauvaksenne (singular translative)
vauvoiksenne (plural translative)
vauvattanne (abessive singular)
vauvoittanne (abessive plural)
vauvoinenne (comitative plural)
vauvansa (nominative singular)
vauvansa (nominative plural)
vauvansa (accusative nominative singular)
vauvansa (accusative nominative plural)
vauvansa (accusative genitive singular)
vauvansa (accusative genitive plural)
vauvansa (genitive singular)
vauvojensa (genitive plural)
vauvainsa (genitive plural rare)
vauvaansa (partitive singular)
vauvojaan (partitive plural)
vauvojansa (partitive plural)
vauvassaan (inessive singular)
vauvassansa (inessive singular)
vauvoissaan (inessive plural)
vauvoissansa (inessive plural)
vauvastaan (elative singular)
vauvastansa (elative singular)
vauvoistaan (elative plural)
vauvoistansa (elative plural)
vauvaansa (illative singular)
vauvoihinsa (illative plural)
vauvallaan (adessive singular)
vauvallansa (adessive singular)
vauvoillaan (adessive plural)
vauvoillansa (adessive plural)
vauvaltaan (ablative singular)
vauvaltansa (ablative singular)
vauvoiltaan (ablative plural)
vauvoiltansa (ablative plural)
vauvalleen (allative singular)
vauvallensa (allative singular)
vauvoilleen (allative plural)
vauvoillensa (allative plural)
vauvanaan (essive singular)
vauvanansa (essive singular)
vauvoinaan (essive plural)
vauvoinansa (essive plural)
vauvakseen (singular translative)
vauvaksensa (singular translative)
vauvoikseen (plural translative)
vauvoiksensa (plural translative)
vauvattaan (abessive singular)
vauvattansa (abessive singular)
vauvoittaan (abessive plural)
vauvoittansa (abessive plural)
vauvoineen (comitative plural)
vauvoinensa (comitative plural)

[ˈʋɑ̝u̯w(ː)ɑ̝]

onomatopoeic

Imitative


lapsi

lapsi (nominative singular)
lapset (nominative plural)
lapsi (accusative nominative singular)
lapset (accusative nominative plural)
lapsen (accusative genitive singular)
lapset (accusative genitive plural)
lapsen (genitive singular)
lapsien (genitive plural)
lasten (genitive plural)
lasta (partitive singular)
lapsia (partitive plural)
lapsessa (inessive singular)
lapsissa (inessive plural)
lapsesta (elative singular)
lapsista (elative plural)
lapseen (illative singular)
lapsiin (illative plural)
lapsella (adessive singular)
lapsilla (adessive plural)
lapselta (ablative singular)
lapsilta (ablative plural)
lapselle (allative singular)
lapsille (allative plural)
lapsena (essive singular)
lapsina (essive plural)
lapseksi (singular translative)
lapsiksi (plural translative)
lapsetta (abessive singular)
lapsitta (abessive plural)
lapsin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
lapseni (nominative singular)
lapseni (nominative plural)
lapseni (accusative nominative singular)
lapseni (accusative nominative plural)
lapseni (accusative genitive singular)
lapseni (accusative genitive plural)
lapseni (genitive singular)
lapsieni (genitive plural)
lasteni (genitive plural)
lastani (partitive singular)
lapsiani (partitive plural)
lapsessani (inessive singular)
lapsissani (inessive plural)
lapsestani (elative singular)
lapsistani (elative plural)
lapseeni (illative singular)
lapsiini (illative plural)
lapsellani (adessive singular)
lapsillani (adessive plural)
lapseltani (ablative singular)
lapsiltani (ablative plural)
lapselleni (allative singular)
lapsilleni (allative plural)
lapsenani (essive singular)
lapsinani (essive plural)
lapsekseni (singular translative)
lapsikseni (plural translative)
lapsettani (abessive singular)
lapsittani (abessive plural)
lapsineni (comitative plural)
lapsesi (nominative singular)
lapsesi (nominative plural)
lapsesi (accusative nominative singular)
lapsesi (accusative nominative plural)
lapsesi (accusative genitive singular)
lapsesi (accusative genitive plural)
lapsesi (genitive singular)
lapsiesi (genitive plural)
lastesi (genitive plural)
lastasi (partitive singular)
lapsiasi (partitive plural)
lapsessasi (inessive singular)
lapsissasi (inessive plural)
lapsestasi (elative singular)
lapsistasi (elative plural)
lapseesi (illative singular)
lapsiisi (illative plural)
lapsellasi (adessive singular)
lapsillasi (adessive plural)
lapseltasi (ablative singular)
lapsiltasi (ablative plural)
lapsellesi (allative singular)
lapsillesi (allative plural)
lapsenasi (essive singular)
lapsinasi (essive plural)
lapseksesi (singular translative)
lapsiksesi (plural translative)
lapsettasi (abessive singular)
lapsittasi (abessive plural)
lapsinesi (comitative plural)
lapsemme (nominative singular)
lapsemme (nominative plural)
lapsemme (accusative nominative singular)
lapsemme (accusative nominative plural)
lapsemme (accusative genitive singular)
lapsemme (accusative genitive plural)
lapsemme (genitive singular)
lapsiemme (genitive plural)
lastemme (genitive plural)
lastamme (partitive singular)
lapsiamme (partitive plural)
lapsessamme (inessive singular)
lapsissamme (inessive plural)
lapsestamme (elative singular)
lapsistamme (elative plural)
lapseemme (illative singular)
lapsiimme (illative plural)
lapsellamme (adessive singular)
lapsillamme (adessive plural)
lapseltamme (ablative singular)
lapsiltamme (ablative plural)
lapsellemme (allative singular)
lapsillemme (allative plural)
lapsenamme (essive singular)
lapsinamme (essive plural)
lapseksemme (singular translative)
lapsiksemme (plural translative)
lapsettamme (abessive singular)
lapsittamme (abessive plural)
lapsinemme (comitative plural)
lapsenne (nominative singular)
lapsenne (nominative plural)
lapsenne (accusative nominative singular)
lapsenne (accusative nominative plural)
lapsenne (accusative genitive singular)
lapsenne (accusative genitive plural)
lapsenne (genitive singular)
lapsienne (genitive plural)
lastenne (genitive plural)
lastanne (partitive singular)
lapsianne (partitive plural)
lapsessanne (inessive singular)
lapsissanne (inessive plural)
lapsestanne (elative singular)
lapsistanne (elative plural)
lapseenne (illative singular)
lapsiinne (illative plural)
lapsellanne (adessive singular)
lapsillanne (adessive plural)
lapseltanne (ablative singular)
lapsiltanne (ablative plural)
lapsellenne (allative singular)
lapsillenne (allative plural)
lapsenanne (essive singular)
lapsinanne (essive plural)
lapseksenne (singular translative)
lapsiksenne (plural translative)
lapsettanne (abessive singular)
lapsittanne (abessive plural)
lapsinenne (comitative plural)
lapsensa (nominative singular)
lapsensa (nominative plural)
lapsensa (accusative nominative singular)
lapsensa (accusative nominative plural)
lapsensa (accusative genitive singular)
lapsensa (accusative genitive plural)
lapsensa (genitive singular)
lapsiensa (genitive plural)
lastensa (genitive plural)
lastaan (partitive singular)
lastansa (partitive singular)
lapsiaan (partitive plural)
lapsiansa (partitive plural)
lapsessaan (inessive singular)
lapsessansa (inessive singular)
lapsissaan (inessive plural)
lapsissansa (inessive plural)
lapsestaan (elative singular)
lapsestansa (elative singular)
lapsistaan (elative plural)
lapsistansa (elative plural)
lapseensa (illative singular)
lapsiinsa (illative plural)
lapsellaan (adessive singular)
lapsellansa (adessive singular)
lapsillaan (adessive plural)
lapsillansa (adessive plural)
lapseltaan (ablative singular)
lapseltansa (ablative singular)
lapsiltaan (ablative plural)
lapsiltansa (ablative plural)
lapselleen (allative singular)
lapsellensa (allative singular)
lapsilleen (allative plural)
lapsillensa (allative plural)
lapsenaan (essive singular)
lapsenansa (essive singular)
lapsinaan (essive plural)
lapsinansa (essive plural)
lapsekseen (singular translative)
lapseksensa (singular translative)
lapsikseen (plural translative)
lapsiksensa (plural translative)
lapsettaan (abessive singular)
lapsettansa (abessive singular)
lapsittaan (abessive plural)
lapsittansa (abessive plural)
lapsineen (comitative plural)
lapsinensa (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *lapci, probably from Proto-Uralic *lëpće (“cradle”). Cognate to Erzya лавсь (lavś, “cradle”).

child (person who is below the age of adulthood)


uterus

la-noun

uterus m (genitive uterī); second declension

uterī (genitive)
uterus (nominative singular)
uterī (nominative plural)
uterī (genitive singular)
uterōrum (genitive plural)
uterō (dative singular)
uterīs (dative plural)
uterum (accusative singular)
uterōs (accusative plural)
uterō (ablative singular)
uterīs (ablative plural)
utere (singular vocative)
uterī (plural vocative)

Catalan: úter

desctree

English: uterus
→ Czech: uterus
→ Malay: uterus
→ Swahili: uterasi

French: utérus

Galician: útero

Interlingua: utero

Italian: utero

Malay: uterus

Piedmontese: ùter/üter

Portuguese: útero

Romanian: uter

Sicilian: ùtiru

Spanish: útero

→ Turkish: uterus

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *úderos
Latin uterus
From Proto-Indo-European *úderos (“abdomen, stomach”), from *úd (“out, outward”) + *-eros (contrastive suffix).


infant

Inherited from Middle English infaunt, borrowed from Latin īnfantem, accusative masculine singular of īnfāns, nominal use of the adjective meaning 'not able to speak', from īn- (“not”) + fāns, present participle of for (“to speak”). The verb is from Anglo-Norman enfanter, from the same Latin source. Doublet of infante.

Retourned home, the royall Infant fell / Into her former fitt [...].

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

(obsolete) A noble or aristocratic youth.


snot

en-noun

snot (countable and uncountable, plural snots)

From Middle English snot, snotte, from Old English ġesnot, *snott, from Proto-West Germanic *snott, *snutt, from Proto-Germanic *snuttuz (“nasal mucus”), from the same base as snout. Related also to snite.
Cognate with North Frisian snot (“snot”), Saterland Frisian Snotte (“snot”), West Frisian snotte (“snot”), Dutch snot (“snot”), German Low German Snött (“snot”), dialectal German Schnutz (“snot”), Danish snot (“snot”), Norwegian snott (“snot”).


anak

From Proto-Philippine *anak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *anak, from Proto-Austronesian *aNak. Compare Tagalog anak.

child; offspring (a female or male child, a daughter or son)


infans

la-adj

īnfāns (genitive īnfantis, comparative īnfantior, superlative īnfantissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective

īnfāns (canonical)
īnfantis (genitive)
īnfantior (comparative)
īnfantissimus (superlative)
īnfāns (feminine masculine neuter nominative singular)
īnfantēs (feminine masculine nominative plural)
īnfantia (neuter nominative plural)
īnfantis (feminine genitive masculine neuter singular)
īnfantium (feminine genitive masculine neuter plural)
īnfantī (dative feminine masculine neuter singular)
īnfantibus (dative feminine masculine neuter plural)
īnfantem (accusative feminine masculine singular)
īnfāns (accusative neuter singular)
īnfantēs (accusative feminine masculine plural)
īnfantia (accusative neuter plural)
īnfantī (ablative feminine masculine neuter singular)
īnfantibus (ablative feminine masculine neuter plural)
īnfāns (feminine masculine neuter singular vocative)
īnfantēs (feminine masculine plural vocative)
īnfantia (neuter plural vocative)


infans

la-noun

īnfāns m or f (genitive īnfantis); third declension

īnfāns (canonical feminine masculine)
īnfantis (genitive)
īnfāns (nominative singular)
īnfantēs (nominative plural)
īnfantis (genitive singular)
īnfantium (genitive plural)
īnfantī (dative singular)
īnfantibus (dative plural)
īnfantem (accusative singular)
īnfantēs (accusative plural)
īnfantīs (accusative plural)
īnfante (ablative singular)
īnfantibus (ablative plural)
īnfāns (singular vocative)
īnfantēs (plural vocative)

Esperanto: infano

Old Francoprovençal: enfás (direct), enfant (oblique)

Franco-Provençal: enfant

Old French: enfés (direct), enfant (oblique)

French: enfant

Norman: effant

Dalmatian: infant

Italian: fante

→ French: fantassin

→ Italian: infante

desctree

→ Middle English: infaunt, infant, infante, infaunte, enfaunt
English: infant

Old Occitan: enfas (direct), enfant (oblique)

Occitan: enfant, enfan

Old Leonese:

Asturian: enfante

Leonese: infante, ifante

desc

Old Galician-Portuguese: ifante, infante

Galician: infante

Portuguese: infante

Old Spanish: ifante

Spanish: infante

Romansch: unfant, uffant, affon, iffaunt, unfànt

Russian: инфа́нт (infánt)


sprog

en-verb

sprog (third-person singular simple present sprogs, present participle sprogging, simple past and past participle sprogged)

sprogs (present singular third-person)
sprogging (participle present)
sprogged (participle past)
sprogged (past)

1940s, originally service slang. Perhaps from obsolete sprag (“lively young man”), of unknown origin.

You must have been terrified, it′s not like today with film stars sprogging babies everywhere.

2007, Libby Purves, Love Songs and Lies, unnumbered page:

‘How′s it all going with your boyo in the valleys? Any plans for sprogging or vows or anything serious yet?’

2008, Lucy Diamond, Over You, unnumbered page:

‘Women lose their sexual drive after they′ve sprogged,’ Norman Potting interjected.

2009, Peter James, Dead Tomorrow, unnumbered page:

(UK, Australia, slang, humorous) To produce children.


sad

sȃd (canonical inanimate masculine)
sȃd (nominative singular)
sadȏva (dual nominative)
sadȏvi (nominative plural)
sadȗ (genitive singular)
sadóv (dual genitive)
sadóv (genitive plural)
sȃdu (dative singular)
sȃdi (dative singular)
sadȏvoma (dative dual)
sadȏvama (dative dual)
sadȏvom (dative plural)
sȃdȏvam (dative plural)
sȃd (accusative singular)
sadȏva (accusative dual)
sadȏve (accusative plural)
sȃdu (locative singular)
sȃdi (locative singular)
sadȏvih (dual locative)
sadȏvih (locative plural)
sȃdom (instrumental singular)
sadȏvoma (dual instrumental)
sadȏvama (dual instrumental)
sadȏvi (instrumental plural)
sȃd (singular vocative)
sadȏva (dual vocative)
sadȏvi (plural vocative)
sȃd (nominative singular)
sadȏva (dual nominative)
sadȏvi (nominative plural)
sȃda (genitive singular)
sadóv (dual genitive)
sadóv (genitive plural)
sȃdu (dative singular)
sȃdi (dative singular)
sadȏvoma (dative dual)
sadȏvama (dative dual)
sadȏvom (dative plural)
sȃdȏvam (dative plural)
sȃd (accusative singular)
sadȏva (accusative dual)
sadȏve (accusative plural)
sȃdu (locative singular)
sȃdi (locative singular)
sadȏvih (dual locative)
sadȏvih (locative plural)
sȃdom (instrumental singular)
sadȏvoma (dual instrumental)
sadȏvama (dual instrumental)
sadȏvi (instrumental plural)
sȃd (singular vocative)
sadȏva (dual vocative)
sadȏvi (plural vocative)

From Proto-Slavic *sȃdъ (“plant, garden”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sādas.

Zdrava, Marija, milosti polna, Gospod je s Teboj, blagoslovljena si med ženami in blagoslovljen je sad Tvojega telesa Jezus.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

(obsolete) child, young direct offspring


babe

From Middle English babe, a variant of earlier baban, perhaps from Old English *baba (“boy, child”), from Proto-West Germanic *babō, from Proto-Germanic *babô, reduplicated variant of *ba-, *bō- (“father, brother, close male relation”).
cognates and related terms
Related to Old Frisian bobba (“child”) (whence North Frisian babbe, babb, babe (“child”)), Old High German Babo (a male forename), see boy. Otherwise, origin obscure. Compare mama, dada, papa. Welsh baban (“baby”), believed by Skeat to be a mutation of maban, a diminutive of mab (“son”), is probably rather a borrowing from English. Cognate also with English bub.

out of the mouths of babes and sucklings

These events came to pass when he was but a babe.

Though he possess sweet babes and loving wife,
A home of peace by loyal friendships cheered,
And love them more than death or happy life,

1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:

(literary or poetic) A baby or infant; a very young human or animal. [from 14th c.]


babe

English: babe, bab

→ Irish: báb

→ Welsh: baban


zuigeling

nl-noun

zuigeling m (plural zuigelingen, diminutive zuigelingetje n)

zuigelingen (plural)
zuigelingetje (diminutive neuter)

Negerhollands: sygligen

/ˈzœy̯.ɣəˌlɪŋ/

16th century. From zuigen + -e- + -ling, calque of German Säugling.

Aan de oever van de Rotte, / Tussen Delft en Overschie, / Zat een kikvors luid te wenen, / Met een zuig'ling op haar knie.

year unknown (but attested as early as 1887), traditional, Aan de oever van de Rotte [On the banks of the Rotte]:

On the banks of the Rotte, / Between Delft and Overschie, / Sat a frog weeping loudly, / With a suckling on her knee.


liberi

la-noun

līberī m pl (genitive līberōrum); second declension

līberī (canonical masculine plural)
līberōrum (genitive)
līberī (nominative plural)
līberōrum (genitive plural)
līberīs (dative plural)
līberōs (accusative plural)
līberīs (ablative plural)
līberī (plural vocative)


少年

/ʂɑʊ̯⁵¹ ni̯ɛn³⁵/

/ʂɔ⁴⁴ niæ̃²⁴/

/siau⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ liɛn²⁴/

/siau²¹³⁻⁵⁵ ni⁵⁵/

/ʂɑʊ̯⁵¹ ni̯ɛn³⁵/

/ʂɔ⁴⁴ niæ̃²⁴/

/siau⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ liɛn²⁴/

/siau²¹³⁻⁵⁵ ni⁵⁵/

少年時代

少年时代

early youth (from ten to sixteen years old)


少年

ja-noun

少(しょう)年(ねん) • (shōnen) ^(←せうねん (seunen)?)

少年 (canonical)
shōnen (romanization)
seunen (romanization)
せうねん (hiragana historical)

/seunen/ → /ɕeunen/ → /ɕoːnen/
Borrowing from Middle Chinese 少年 (syewᴴ nen, literally “young + years”). Compare modern Cantonese 少年 (siu³ nin⁴), Mandarin 少年 (shàonián), Korean 소년 (sonyeon), Vietnamese thiếu niên.
Originally referred to young people of either gender. The meaning has narrowed in modern usage to more commonly refer to boys of elementary school or middle school age.

bor

少年時代

少年はこの漫画が大好きで、もう売り切れになっています。

Shōnen wa kono manga ga daisuki de, mō urikire ni natte imasu.

Boys really like this manga, and it's already sold out.

2011 February 9, Hideaki Sorachi, “第(だい)三(さん)百(びゃく)三(さん)十(じゅう)四(よん)訓(くん) 銭(せん)湯(とう)では身(み)も心(こころ)も丸(まる)裸(はだか) [Lesson 334: Our Bodies and Souls Are All Naked in the Public Baths]”, in 銀(ぎん)魂(たま) [Silver Soul], volume 38 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN:

Granny, I’m still a boy at heart, so make it 200 yen for two.

バーさん 俺は心は少年だから二人で200円で頼むわ

Bā-san ore wa kokoro wa shōnen da kara futari de nihyaku-en de tanomu wa

2017 April 15, “星(せい)杯(はい)に選(えら)ばれし者(もの) [Chosen by the Star Chalice]”, in CODE(コード) OF(オブ) THE(ザ) DUELIST(デュエリスト), Konami:

An upright boy armed with the remains of Mechstrosities.

機怪の残骸で武装する、真っ直ぐな心の少年。

Kikai no zangai de busō suru, massugu na kokoro no shōnen.

少年院

reform school, juvenile reformatory, juvie

少年鑑別所

juvenile hall, Juvenile Classification Office

少年犯罪者

juvenile delinquent, juvenile offender (male)


lass

term-label

(archaic except UK, dialectal, informal or poetic)

From Middle English las, lasce, lasse (“female infant or child; young woman”), probably from Old Norse laskwa (“unmarried”, adjective).
cognates
* Scots lass, lassie

der

[…] I'll tell ye that after we are done wi' our supper, for it will may be no be sae weel to speak about it while that lang-lugged limmer o' a lass is gaun flisking in and out o' the room.

1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter VI, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 101:

[…] I'll tell you that after we are done with our supper, for it will maybe not be so well to speak about it while that long-eared rogue of a maidservant is going capering in and out of the room.

[S]ure aneugh, the lass washed clottered blood aff the carpet the neist day.

[1824 June, [Walter Scott], “Letter XI. The Same [Darsie Latimer] to the Same [Alan Fairford].”, in Redgauntlet, […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 234:

She fleyed Johnnie awa' frae the door when he was for daffin' wi' the serving lasses.

[1927 July, John Buchan, “The Black Wood by Day”, in Witch Wood, London: Hodder and Stoughton, published August 1927, →OCLC, page 90:

(Northern England, Scotland) A female servant; a maid, a maidservant.


godchild

/ˈɡɑdˌt͡ʃaɪld/

/ˈɡɒdˌt͡ʃaɪld/

Mary stood as godmother for little Emily, her godchild.

A child whose baptism is sponsored by a godparent. In some cases the relationship is maintained indefinitely, with the godchild being treated much like a niece or nephew.

famull

a child whose baptism is sponsored by a godparent


bairn

Borrowed from Scots bairn, from Middle English bern, barn, from Old English bearn, from Proto-West Germanic *barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną. Doublet of barn. Compare West Frisian bern.

She moved about the country like a ghost, gathering herbs in dark loanings, lingering in kirkyairds, and casting a blight on innocent bairns.

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

They say that a shag is good for an unborn child, they get the circulation of blood, or some shite. The least ah kin dae is take an interest in the bairn’s welfare.

1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 219:

Bobby Shaftoe's getten a bairn
For to dandle in his arm;
In his arm and on his knee,
Bobby Shaftoe loves me.

1998, Jonathan Langley, Collins Bedtime Treasury of Nursery Rhymes and Tales, Bobby Shaftoe, page 87:

(Scotland, and parts of Northern England) A child or baby.


παιδικός

παιδῐκός (canonical)
paidikós (romanization)
παιδῐκή (feminine)
παιδῐκόν (neuter)
παιδῐκός (masculine nominative singular)
παιδῐκή (feminine nominative singular)
παιδῐκόν (neuter nominative singular)
παιδῐκώ (dual masculine nominative)
παιδῐκᾱ́ (dual feminine nominative)
παιδῐκώ (dual neuter nominative)
παιδῐκοί (masculine nominative plural)
παιδῐκαί (feminine nominative plural)
παιδῐκᾰ́ (neuter nominative plural)
παιδῐκοῦ (genitive masculine singular)
παιδῐκῆς (feminine genitive singular)
παιδῐκοῦ (genitive neuter singular)
παιδῐκοῖν (dual genitive masculine)
παιδῐκαῖν (dual feminine genitive)
παιδῐκοῖν (dual genitive neuter)
παιδῐκῶν (genitive masculine plural)
παιδῐκῶν (feminine genitive plural)
παιδῐκῶν (genitive neuter plural)
παιδῐκῷ (dative masculine singular)
παιδῐκῇ (dative feminine singular)
παιδῐκῷ (dative neuter singular)
παιδῐκοῖν (dative dual masculine)
παιδῐκαῖν (dative dual feminine)
παιδῐκοῖν (dative dual neuter)
παιδῐκοῖς (dative masculine plural)
παιδῐκαῖς (dative feminine plural)
παιδῐκοῖς (dative neuter plural)
παιδῐκόν (accusative masculine singular)
παιδῐκήν (accusative feminine singular)
παιδῐκόν (accusative neuter singular)
παιδῐκώ (accusative dual masculine)
παιδῐκᾱ́ (accusative dual feminine)
παιδῐκώ (accusative dual neuter)
παιδῐκούς (accusative masculine plural)
παιδῐκᾱ́ς (accusative feminine plural)
παιδῐκᾰ́ (accusative neuter plural)
παιδῐκέ (masculine singular vocative)
παιδῐκή (feminine singular vocative)
παιδῐκόν (neuter singular vocative)
παιδῐκώ (dual masculine vocative)
παιδῐκᾱ́ (dual feminine vocative)
παιδῐκώ (dual neuter vocative)
παιδῐκοί (masculine plural vocative)
παιδῐκαί (feminine plural vocative)
παιδῐκᾰ́ (neuter plural vocative)
παιδῐκῶς (adverbial feminine masculine neuter)
παιδῐκώτερος (comparative feminine masculine neuter)
παιδῐκώτᾰτος (feminine masculine neuter superlative)

From παῖς (paîs, “child”) + -ῐκός (-ikós).


nappy

Probably shortened from napkin (but possibly a corruption of French nappe, since napkin is already a diminutive) + -y (diminutive ending).

The baby did a poo in her nappy.

You will notice that disposable nappies are sold in boy and girl versions. They vary in where the thickest padding is provided.

1995, Jennie Lindon, Lance Lindon, Leandra Negrini, Caring for Young Children, page 60:

Other equipment required was soap for hand washing and washing of nappies, a washing line for the drying of nappies,[…].

2005, Medical Association of Malawi, “Malawi Medical Journal: The Journal of Medical Association of Malawi”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 17, page 39:

You could burn disposable nappies (not a very practical option); otherwise, it′s probably best to take a supply of large plastic bags or nappy sacks with you and to dispose of them as thoughtfully as you can.

2008, Isabelle Young, Healthy Travel: Asia & India, 2nd edition, Lonely Planet, page 275:

In response we mailed hundreds of nappies to students in halls. On the nappy was a simple message, IT'S A LOT EASIER TO PUT ON A CONDOM.

2009, Chris Arnold, Ethical Marketing and The New Consumer, page 55:

(British, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand) An absorbent garment worn by a baby or toddler who does not yet have voluntary control of their bladder and bowels or by someone who is incontinent; a diaper.


nipper

Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh?

1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 1, page 55:

No, this is not a creche: nippers should not be running around, fighting under the pool table or generally creating havoc (this applies to dogs, too).

2018 June 6, Tony Naylor, “The new rules of pub etiquette: don't flirt with bar staff or steal the glasses”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:


page

From Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Late Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of "boy from the rural regions". Used in English from the 13th century onwards.

(British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.


diaper

en-noun

diaper (countable and uncountable, plural diapers)

From Middle English dyaper, from Old French dyapre, diaspre, from Medieval Latin diaspra, diasprum from Byzantine Greek δίασπρος (díaspros, adj), from δια- (dia-, “across”) + ἄσπρος (áspros, “white”).

der

(Canada, US, Philippines, India) An absorbent garment worn by a baby, by a young child not yet toilet trained, or by an adult who is incontinent; a nappy.

popok

absorbent garment worn by a baby, or by someone who is incontinent


čaj

female child, daughter, girl (only gypsies and gentlewomen)


tot

Borrowed from Scots tot, a shortened form of totum (“small child; tot”), of uncertain origin, perhaps shortened from totter (“to move in an unsteady way”),
Compare tottle, also Old Norse tottr (“name of a dwarf”), Swedish tutte (“small child”), Danish tommeltot (“little child”).

Whoe answeared like a toute, or a maddman, as he was, that he was for the Kinge.

a. 1660, A Contemporary History Of Affairs In Ireland:

(UK, dialect, obsolete) A foolish fellow.


clout

English: clout

Scots: clout, cloot

From Old English clūt, from Proto-West Germanic *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz. Compare cloud.

Cloth for wrapping babies; swaddling clothes.


bassinet

From French bassinet, superficially a diminutive of bassin (“basin”). Klein, however, suggests an origin from French bercelonette (itself a double diminutive of berceau (“cradle”)), with influence from bassin.

The next day, the baby sleeps in a bassinet near my bed.

2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 198:

A newborn baby's bed, traditionally made of woven reeds or straw.


dottle

From Middle English dottel, dottelle (“a plug or tap of a vessel”), a diminutive of Old English dott (> English dot (“a point”)), equivalent to dot + -le. Related to Old English dyttan (“to stop up, clot”), Dutch dot (“a knot, lump, clod”), Low German Dutte (“a plug”). More at dit.


LC

en-noun

LC (countable and uncountable, plural LCs)

lactation consultant
w:lactation consultant

(healthcare) Initialism of lactation consultant.


tyke

From Middle English tike, tyke, from Old Norse tík (“bitch”), from Proto-Germanic *tīkō (“female dog”). Compare modern Icelandic tík (“bitch, female dog”), Faroese tík (“bitch, female dog”), Swedish tik (“bitch, female dog”). For sense 5, early 20th century: alteration of Taig.

(Australia, New Zealand, informal, derogatory) A Roman Catholic.


딸

First attested in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事 / 계림유사), 1103, as Late Old Korean 寶妲 (Yale: *pòtól), probably a compound of an ancient root for "daughter" *pòt- + suffix *-ól; compare Jilin leishi 丫妲 (Yale: *àtól, “son”), apparently equivalent to *à(N)t- + *-ól.
In the hangul script, first attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean ᄯᆞᆯ〮 (Yale: stól). The */p-/ > /s-/ shift is difficult to explain; perhaps it simply "represents an irregular development", or perhaps the expected cluster */pt-/ had already fully merged and was realized in speech only as [t͈-], which was misanalyzed as the surface realization of the cluster /st-/.
Choi Yeong-Seon believes that the character 寶 in 寶妲 is a corrupted spelling of 實 (Late Middle Chinese */ʑiɪt̚/), and that the true Late Old Korean lexeme should be *sùtól or a similar form. If this is true, the Middle Korean reflex ᄯᆞᆯ〮 (stól) would be entirely regular, requiring only the elision of a minimal vowel.

ruby

􂀿鷄􂁀(계)􂀿林􂁀(림)􂀿類􂁀(유)􂀿事􂁀(사)」

鷄(계)林(림)類(유)事(사)」

lang

「鷄(계)林(림)類(유)事(사)」의 여성 명칭어 연구

lang

계림유사의 음운론적 연구

계림유사의 음운론적 연구

Coordinate term: 아들 (adeul, “son”)

딸을 시집보내다

딸이 미혼모가 된다니 체면이 서지 않게 되었다.

It is a disgrace that our daughter should be an unmarried mother.

Ttar-i mihonmo-ga doendani chemyeon-i seoji anke doeeotda.

그녀는 결혼하여 아들 셋에 딸을 하나 낳았습니다.

She married and had three sons and one daughter.

Geunyeo-neun gyeolhon-hayeo adeul ses-e ttar-eul hana naatseumnida.


orphan

Late Middle English, from Late Latin orphanus, from Ancient Greek ὀρφανός (orphanós, “without parents, fatherless”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos.
 PIE word
 *h₃órbʰos
Cognate with Sanskrit अर्भ (árbha), Latin orbus (“orphaned”), Old High German erbi, arbi (German Erbe (“heir”)), Old English ierfa (“heir”). More at erf.

weeskind

person whose (parent or) parents have died

anak yatim (who has lost father, literally means orphan child)

(figuratively) Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.

(typography) A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.

fransk horeunge

single line of type at the bottom of page


teethe

en-verb

teethe (third-person singular simple present teethes, present participle teething, simple past and past participle teethed)

teethes (present singular third-person)
teething (participle present)
teethed (participle past)
teethed (past)

From Middle English tethen, from Old English tēþan (“to teethe”), from Proto-Germanic *tanþijaną (“to teethe”), from Proto-Germanic *tanþs (“tooth”). Cognate with German zähnen (“to provide with teeth”).

Babies typically start teething at about six months.

She'll teethe on anything that she can get into her mouth.

(intransitive) To bite on something to relieve discomfort caused by growing teeth.


wean

wean (third-person singular simple present weans, present participle weaning, simple past and past participle weaned)

weans (present singular third-person)
weaning (participle present)
weaned (participle past)
weaned (past)

From Middle English wenen, from Old English wenian (“to accustom; habituate; train; prepare; make fit”), from Proto-Germanic *wanjaną (“to make wont; accustom”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive for; wish; love”). Cognate with Dutch wennen, German gewöhnen, Danish vænne, Swedish vänja, Icelandic venja. Related via PIE to wone, wont, and wonder, and perhaps win.

اِنْفَطَمَ

to cease to depend on the mother for nourishment

The cow has weaned her calf.

Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 21:8:

(transitive) To cease giving breast milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder.


knave

English: knave

Scots: knave, knafe, knaif

From Old English cnafa, from Proto-Germanic *knabô. Compare knape.


prenatal

es-adj

prenatal m or f (masculine and feminine plural prenatales)


cradle

From Middle English cradel, credel, from Old English cradol, from Proto-West Germanic *kradul, from Proto-Germanic *kradulaz, from Proto-Germanic *kradô (“(wicker) basket”). Related to cart.

der

the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

from the cradle to the grave

from their cradles bred together

c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

a form of worship in which they had been educated from their cradle

1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:

(figuratively) Infancy, or very early life.

wieg

figuratively: infancy, or very early life


stillbirth

The birth of a dead fetus; the delivery of an infant which is dead at birth.


unborn

en-noun

unborn (countable and uncountable, plural unborns)

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

From Middle English unborn, from Old English unboren, from Proto-Germanic *unburanaz. Equivalent to un- + born.

Inheritance law allows property to be left to the unborn.

(uncountable) Unborn offspring collectively.


babyhood

babyhood (countable and uncountable, plural babyhoods)

Radulph hid his face in his hands and for the first time since babyhood, prayed […]

1993, Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet, Dalkey Archive Press, page 129:


breast milk

breast milk (countable and uncountable, plural breast milks)

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


MGM

(film) Initialism of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, a US movie studio.

(rail transport) The station code for the Metheringham railway station in England.


MGM

MGM (countable and uncountable, plural MGMs)

maternal grandmother
maternal grandmother#English

Coordinate term: FGM

They brandished statistics of deaths from adult circumcision each year. They called it MGM, an acronym quickly acquiring the notoriety of FGM.

2019, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, “Love Made in Manchester”, in Manchester Happened, Oneworld Publications (2020), page 286:

male genital mutilation
male genital mutilation#English


adolescent

en-adj

adolescent (comparative more adolescent, superlative most adolescent)

more adolescent (comparative)
most adolescent (superlative)

First attested ?1440, from Middle English adolescent, from Middle French adolescent or directly from Latin adolescentem, accusative form of adolescens, present participle of adolēscere (“to become adult, grow up”), from ad- (“to”) + alēscere (“to grow or become nourished”). The adjective first appeared in 1785.

Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, / Detain their adolescent charge too long.

Again, voice change is not easy and vulnerability plays a big part, but if choral teachers and adolescent singers approach it with the right mindframe, the experience can be empowering, enlightening, and restorative for all involved.

2019, Bridget Sweet, Thinking Outside the Voice Box, page 71:

Of, relating to, or at the age of adolescence; at the stage between being a child and an adult.


adolescent

‘A healthy adolescent might be expected to produce five hundred billion blood cells a day.’

2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 66:

A person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult.


adolescent

nl-noun

adolescent m or f (plural adolescenten, diminutive adolescentje n)

adolescenten (plural)
adolescentje (diminutive neuter)

→ Indonesian: adolesen

Borrowed from French adolescent, from Latin adolēscēns.


adolescent

adolescent (nominative singular)
adolescenci (nominative plural)
adolescenty (derogatory nominative plural)
adolescenta (genitive singular)
adolescentów (genitive plural)
adolescentowi (dative singular)
adolescentom (dative plural)
adolescenta (accusative singular)
adolescentów (accusative plural)
adolescentem (instrumental singular)
adolescentami (instrumental plural)
adolescencie (locative singular)
adolescentach (locative plural)
adolescencie (singular vocative)
adolescenci (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin adolēscēns. First attested in the 19th century.

ref

J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900–1927), “adolescent”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warsaw

adolescent (a person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult)


schoolchild

They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:

[…] the Wisconsin legislature passed a law providing incentives for transfers of schoolchildren in the metropolitan area, both intradistrict and interdistrict.

1988 January 29, Steve Bogira, “Interdistrict Transfer”, in Chicago Reader:

Spring ahead, fall back: Kathleen had once learned some rhyme about that when she was a schoolchild, but she no longer remembered it.

A young person attending school or of an age to attend school.


pram

Janet Bird née Ollerenshaw was pushing her pram along Tockley High Street.

1975, Margaret Drabble, The Realms of Gold, published 1977, page 127:

For a start the pram was heavier than it appeared, and also they were pulling it along very uneven ground. The edge of the field was slightly banked which tilted the pram at an angle.

2006, Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale:

Stepping over her, he unbuttoned the pram′s apron and pulled it back.
At first he couldn′t make out what the pram contained. He had to crane himself over, holding his body back from the obscuring light. The pram was full of groceries—cabbage, sprouts, potatoes.

2012, Ramsey Campbell, Dark Companions, page 233:

The Key Train Requirements document, released in July by the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB), includes a new clause covering people travelling with pushchairs. It highlights the need for space in carriages for unfolded pushchairs or prams, separate from areas for wheelchairs and cycles. It also recommends extending seat reservations to include pram spaces.

2023 August 9, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Family-friendly travel: new standard covers pushchairs”, in RAIL, number 989, page 26:

A small vehicle, usually covered, in which a newborn baby is pushed around in a lying position.


foster

English: foster

Scots: foster

Inherited from Old English fōster, from Proto-West Germanic *fōstr, from Proto-Germanic *fōstrą; reinforced by Old English fōstre (“fosterer”). The vocalism is due to regular shortening before a three-consonant cluster (in the Old English oblique stem fōstr-).


geneth

genethod (plural)
geneth
eneth (soft)
ngeneth

From Proto-Brythonic *genettā (“daughter”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-.


bobo

onomatopoeic

nursery language

małe bobo

ryczące bobo

słodkie bobo

zdrowe bobo

bobo w wózku


bambina

it-noun

bambinóna<t:large child; child-like person>

bambina f (plural bambine, masculine bambino, diminutive bambinétta (“smallish child”) or bambinùccia (“baby”), augmentative bambinóna (“large child; child-like person”), pejorative bambinàccia, endearing bambinèlla)

bambine (plural)
bambino (masculine)
bambinétta (diminutive)
bambinùccia (diminutive)
bambinóna (augmentative)
bambinàccia (pejorative)
bambinèlla (endearing)


bambino

bambinóne<t:large child; child-like person>

bambino m (plural bambini, feminine bambina, diminutive bambinétto (“smallish child”) or bambinùccio (“baby”), augmentative bambinóne (“large child; child-like person”), pejorative bambinàccio, endearing bambinèllo)

bambini (plural)
bambina (feminine)
bambinétto (diminutive)
bambinùccio (diminutive)
bambinóne (augmentative)
bambinàccio (pejorative)
bambinèllo (endearing)

→ English: bambino

→ French: bambin

→ Sicilian: bamminu, vamminu

Onomatopoeic bambo for the first stammerings of children, plus -ino (diminutive suffix).

child, baby, toddler, tot (male or of unspecified gender)


figlio

figlio m (plural figli, feminine figlia, diminutive figliétto, pejorative figliàccio)

figli (plural)
figlia (feminine)
figliétto (diminutive)
figliàccio (pejorative)

From Latin fīlius, from Old Latin fīlios, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁y-li-os (“sucker”), a derivation from the verbal root *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck”). Cognate to French fils, Portuguese filho, Galician fillo, Romanian fiu, Spanish hijo, Sicilian figghiu, Corsican figliu, Sardinian fillu, Romansch fegl.

Quanti figli avete?

(usually in the plural) child (of unspecified gender, in relation to their parents)


breastfeed

An instance of feeding milk to a baby from the breasts; a breastfeeding.


copil

ro-noun

copil m (plural copii, feminine equivalent copilă)

copii (plural)
equivalent copilă (feminine)
copil (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
copilul (accusative definite nominative singular)
copii (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
copiii (accusative definite nominative plural)
copil (indefinite singular)
copilului (definite singular)
copii (indefinite plural)
copiilor (definite plural)
copilule (singular vocative)
copiilor (plural vocative)

Formerly ‘bastard’, probably from Proto-Slavic *kopylъ (“shoot, sprout; bastard”) (compare Ukrainian копил (kopyl) or копиля (kopylja), Serbo-Croatian копиле (kȍpile), Bulgarian ко́пеле (kópele)), from *kopàti (“to dig, cultivate”). Also borrowed into Albanian kopil, Byzantine Greek κόπελος (kópelos). Alternatively an old ultimately paleo-Balkan substrate word. Compare Aromanian cochil, Megleno-Romanian copil (“bastard”), cupilaș (“child”).

der

Am doi copii.


baban

babanod (plural)
baban
faban (soft)
maban

Middle English baban, babe, from Old English *baba


buachaill

head

buachaill m (genitive singular buachalla, nominative plural buachaillí)

buachalla (genitive singular)
buachaillí (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
buachaill (indefinite singular)
buachaillí (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a bhuachaill (indefinite singular)
a bhuachaillí (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
buachalla (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an buachaill (definite singular)
na buachaillí (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an bhuachalla (definite singular)
na mbuachaillí (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an mbuachaill (definite singular)
don bhuachaill (definite singular)
leis na buachaillí (definite plural)
buachaill
bhuachaill
mbuachaill

/ˈbˠuəxəl̠ʲ/

/ˈbˠiːxəl̠ʲ/

/ˈbˠɯːxəl̠ʲ/

From Old Irish búachaill (“cowherd”), from Proto-Celtic *boukolyos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷowkólos, from *gʷṓws (“cow”) + *kʷel- (“to revolve, turn around”). Cognates include Breton bugel (“child”), Welsh bugail (“shepherd”), and Ancient Greek βουκόλος (boukólos, “cowherd”).


pushchair

/ˈpʊʃ.t͡ʃɛə(ɹ)/

He reversed the pushchair out of the shop and continued towards his errands.

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A small carriage in which a baby or child is pushed around; a stroller or baby buggy.


papoose

Borrowed from Narragansett papoos (“child”).

[…] a half-breed what they nicknamed "Splinters" 'cos of the way he fixed up her papoose which he stole on a raid […]

They say he has Indian blood in him. They say he has an Indian wife somewhere, and a lot of papooses. Cherokee.

In the empty Houston streets of four o’clock in the morning a motorcycle kid suddenly roared through, all bespangled and bedecked with glittering buttons, visor, slick black jacket, a Texas poet of the night, girl gripped on his back like a papoose, […]

1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 8, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 2:

(US, dated, offensive) A Native American baby.


fjortis

fjortisen (definite singular)
fjortiser (indefinite plural)
fjortisene (definite plural)

Borrowed from Swedish fjortis (“immature teenager”), from fjorton (“fourteen”) (with the suffix -is, from Latin -is), from Old Swedish fiughertān, fiughurtan (“fourteen”), from Old Norse fjugurtán, fjugrtán, of fjórtán (“fourteen”), from Proto-Germanic *fedurtehun (“fourteen”), from both *fedwōr (“four”), from *petwṓr, from *kʷetwṓr of Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”) + and from *tehun (“ten”), from *tehunt, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥t (“ten”). Equivalent to fjorten + -is.

bor+

de tre [intervjuede 17-åringene] forteller at de unngår disko hvor det vanker «fjortiser»

the three [interviewed 17-year-olds] say that they avoid discos where "fourteen-year-olds" are common

[han] kom til å dø av ecstasy mens han stirra på en navlebar fjortis

1997, Morten Jørgensen, Kongen av København, page 126:

[he] would die of ecstasy while staring at a bare-bellied teenybopper

trøst deg med at den dagen det blir hipt å være fjortis med briller og kviser vil du bli sett på som en trendsetter

2004, Frode Øverli, Pondus. Flar firer, page 135:

take comfort in the fact that the day it gets hip to be a teenybopper with glasses and pimples you will be seen as a trendsetter

(colloquial, slang) a (more often female) teenager prone to immature or shallow behavior, a teenybopper


SBS

Special Boat Service
w:Special Boat Service

(UK, military) Initialism of Special Boat Service, an elite unit of the British Royal Marines, similar to the SAS but operating in a naval environment.


cailín

head

cailín m (genitive singular cailín, nominative plural cailíní)

cailín (genitive singular)
cailíní (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
cailín (indefinite singular)
cailíní (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a chailín (indefinite singular)
a chailíní (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an cailín (definite singular)
na cailíní (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an chailín (definite singular)
na gcailíní (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an gcailín (definite singular)
don chailín (definite singular)
leis na cailíní (definite plural)
cailín
chailín
gcailín

→ English: colleen

Shelta: lakeen

From caile (“maid”) + -ín (diminutive suffix).


páiste

head

páiste m (genitive singular páiste, nominative plural páistí)

páiste (genitive singular)
páistí (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
páiste (indefinite singular)
páistí (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a pháiste (indefinite singular)
a pháistí (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an páiste (definite singular)
na páistí (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an pháiste (definite singular)
na bpáistí (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an bpáiste (definite singular)
don pháiste (definite singular)
leis na páistí (definite plural)
páiste
pháiste
bpáiste

From Classical Gaelic páitse (compare Manx paitçhey, Scottish Gaelic pàisde), from Old French page, from Late Latin pagius (“servant”) (possibly via Italian paggio), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of “boy from the rural regions”.

der

Bhí sé pósta ar sheisear ban i ndiaidh a chéile, acht do mharbhuigh sé alig an tsaoghal iad, ar eagla go mbeidheadh páistídhe ar bith aca.

1894 March 20, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:

He was married to six wives, one after another, but he killed all-in-the-world of them for fear they should have any children at all.


clann

head

clann f (genitive singular clainne, nominative plural clanna)

clainne (genitive singular)
clanna (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
clann (indefinite singular)
clanna (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a chlann (indefinite singular)
a chlanna (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
clainne (indefinite singular)
clann (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
clainn (archaic dialectal indefinite singular)
nominative (definite)
an chlann (definite singular)
na clanna (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na clainne (definite singular)
na gclann (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an gclann (definite singular)
leis an gclainn (archaic definite dialectal singular)
don chlann (definite singular)
don chlainn (archaic definite dialectal singular)
leis na clanna (definite plural)
clann
chlann
gclann

From Old Irish cland (“children, family, offspring”), from Old Welsh plant (“children”), from Latin planta (“shoot, twig, sprout”).

clannmhar

having many children; prolific; luxuriant


orphanage

en-noun

orphanage (countable and uncountable, plural orphanages)

/ˈɔː(ɹ)fənɪd͡ʒ/

Attested since the 1570s; orphan + -age.

A residential institution for the care and protection of orphans.

jetimore

a residential institution for the care and protection of orphans


Junge

de-noun

Junge m (weak, genitive Jungen, plural Jungen or Jungs or Jungens, diminutive Jünglein n or Jüngelchen n or Jüngchen n or (rare, often poetic) Jüngelein n)

Jungen (genitive)
Jungen (plural)
Jungs (plural)
Jungens (plural)
Jünglein (diminutive neuter)
Jüngelchen (diminutive neuter)
Jüngchen (diminutive neuter)
Jüngelein (diminutive neuter often poetic rare)
Junge (nominative singular)
Jungen (definite nominative plural)
Jungs (colloquial definite nominative plural)
Jungens (colloquial definite nominative plural)
Jungen (genitive singular)
Jungen (definite genitive plural)
Jungs (colloquial definite genitive plural)
Jungens (colloquial definite genitive plural)
Jungen (dative singular)
Jungen (dative definite plural)
Jungs (colloquial dative definite plural)
Jungens (colloquial dative definite plural)
Jungen (accusative singular)
Jungen (accusative definite plural)
Jungs (accusative colloquial definite plural)
Jungens (accusative colloquial definite plural)

Fixed nominalisation of Middle High German jung (“young”), from Old High German jung (“young”).
Already occasionally in Middle High German [Term?], later gaining a fixed noun form based on its weak nominative inflection (giving ein Junge instead of ein Junger). The recognition as the normal standard term for “boy” is based on Central and Low German usage and has only fully asserted itself during the 20th century (compare Knabe). The now quite common plural form Jungs (Jungens) is also from German Low German [Term?]. Cognate with English young (noun).


youngster

As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

‘Cook-housekeeper jobs don’t grow on trees,’ went on the woman, ‘leastways not where you can keep a youngster with you.’ [...] ‘Do you mean,’ stammered Jess, ‘that you are . . .?’ ‘Cook-housekeeper,’ the woman nodded. ‘Aren’t I telling you? It’s all confirmed!’ ‘And the youngster – me?’ asked Jessamy. ‘Well, whoever else you silly child!’ said the housekeeper, smiling.

1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 32:

“Besides,” she says, looking possessively at her class of Chinese youngsters, “can you imagine these children going to an ordinary school?”

1973 July 16, Wayne King, “Philadelphia's Chinatown Is Threatened by ‘Progress’”, in The New York Times:

In a single moment Montenegro and their supporters were given fresh impetus and encouragement. Beciraj tested Hart with a low shot before teenager Phil Jones, on his England debut, suffered an anxious moment when Stevan Jovetic went down under his challenge, leaving the youngster clearly relieved to see referee Stark wave away Montenegro's appeals.

2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England:


infancy

en-noun

infancy (countable and uncountable, plural infancies)

From Middle English infancie, from Latin īnfantia (“infancy, early childhood; childishness”), equivalent to infant + -cy.


plena

plena (nominative singular)
pleny (nominative plural)
pleny (genitive singular)
plen (genitive plural)
pleně (dative singular)
plenám (dative plural)
plenu (accusative singular)
pleny (accusative plural)
pleno (singular vocative)
pleny (plural vocative)
pleně (locative singular)
plenách (locative plural)
plenou (instrumental singular)
plenami (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plěna, *pelena (“thin skin, thin fabric”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“skin”).


highchair

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An elevated chair, often including a built-in tray, used for feeding babies and toddlers.


pacifier

(Canada, US) A rubber or plastic device imitating a nipple that goes into a baby’s mouth, used to calm and quiet the baby.