Pronounced: deh-lih-KWES, verb
Notes: A new word to me
Yesterday’s word
The word yeanling means, as a noun, “the young of an animal (especially of a sheep or a goat)”. As an adjective, it means “new-born; infant”.
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1600s
Background / Comments
I know the word “yearling”, but our word was new to me. It came from yean (to give birth to a young), which came from the Old English geeanian, which came from eanian (to bear young), combined with -ling (small; young; inferior).
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