"youngling" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈjʌŋlɪŋ/ Forms: more youngling [comparative], most youngling [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English youngling, ȝongelyng, ȝungling, from Old English ġeongling (“a youth, youngling”), from Proto-West Germanic *jungiling, from Proto-Germanic *jungalingaz, *jungilingaz (“young man, youngling”); equivalent to young + -ling. Doublet of Yngling. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₂ey-|id=life}}, {{inh|en|enm|youngling}} Middle English youngling, {{inh|en|ang|ġeongling|t=a youth, youngling}} Old English ġeongling (“a youth, youngling”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*jungiling}} Proto-West Germanic *jungiling, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*jungalingaz}} Proto-Germanic *jungalingaz, {{af|en|young|-ling}} young + -ling, {{dbt|en|Yngling}} Doublet of Yngling Head templates: {{en-adj}} youngling (comparative more youngling, superlative most youngling)
  1. (archaic) Young; youthful. Tags: archaic Synonyms: young Translations (young): млад (mlad) (Bulgarian), jeugdig (Dutch), yuna (Ido)
    Sense id: en-youngling-en-adj-I2ES4Cv7

Noun

IPA: /ˈjʌŋlɪŋ/ Forms: younglings [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English youngling, ȝongelyng, ȝungling, from Old English ġeongling (“a youth, youngling”), from Proto-West Germanic *jungiling, from Proto-Germanic *jungalingaz, *jungilingaz (“young man, youngling”); equivalent to young + -ling. Doublet of Yngling. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₂ey-|id=life}}, {{inh|en|enm|youngling}} Middle English youngling, {{inh|en|ang|ġeongling|t=a youth, youngling}} Old English ġeongling (“a youth, youngling”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*jungiling}} Proto-West Germanic *jungiling, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*jungalingaz}} Proto-Germanic *jungalingaz, {{af|en|young|-ling}} young + -ling, {{dbt|en|Yngling}} Doublet of Yngling Head templates: {{en-noun}} youngling (plural younglings)
  1. A young person, animal, or plant; chit. Categories (topical): Children, People Synonyms: child (english: human), youngling Hypernyms: animal Holonyms: brood, crèche, litter Related terms: offspring, spawn, young, :Category:Baby animals, child, female animal, pregnant Translations (young person, animal, or plant): малко (malko) [neuter] (Bulgarian), yuno (Ido), sabi (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-youngling-en-noun-mjE9EFGy Disambiguation of Children: 22 78 Disambiguation of People: 17 83 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ling, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Ido translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 96 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ling: 6 94 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 1 99 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 11 89 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 9 91 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 8 92 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 1 99 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 5 95 Disambiguation of Terms with Ido translations: 1 99 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 14 86 Hyponyms: baby, juvenile, infant, orphan, whelp, yearling, calf, fawn, hogget, kid, lamb, poddy, yeanling, colt, filly, foal, cria, cub, kitten, kitty, lion cub, tiger cub, bull-pup, kit, pup, puppy, bearcub, bear-whelp, joey, puggle, piglet, bunny, leveret, frogling, hatchling, polliwog, snakelet, tadpole, chick, cygnet, dovelet, duckling, doveling, eaglet, eyas, fledgling, gosling, nestling, piper, squab, swanling, crablet, cuttlet, ephyrae, fry, leptocephalus, nauplius, nymph, parr, pluteus, smolt, spat, littleneck, zoea, caterpillar, larva

Inflected forms

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      "word": "young"
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          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 52:",
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      "roman": "malko",
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      "word": "малко"
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      "sense": "young person, animal, or plant",
      "word": "yuno"
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      "word": "sabi"
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}

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