yean
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English *yenen, *ȝenen, eanen, from Old English *ġeēanian, ēanian (“to yean, bring forth young (usually lambs), bring forth as a ewe”) (for the prefixed form, compare Old English ġeēane (“yeaning”)), from Proto-Germanic *gaaunōną, *aunōną (“to yean, lamb”), from Proto-Indo-European *agʷn- (“lamb”). Cognate with Scots yean (“to yean”), West Frisian eandsje, inje (“to yean”), Dutch onen (“to yean”), Swedish dialectal öna (“to yean”). Akin also to Latin agnus[1], Greek ἀμνός (amnos)[2], Old Irish úan (“lamb”), and to ewe[1]. See also ean.
Verb [edit]
yean (third-person singular simple present yeans, present participle yeaning, simple past and past participle yeaned)
- (transitive, obsolete, of goats or sheep) To give birth to.
Quotations [edit]
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