yearling

English

From Middle English yerling, yerlyng, equivalent to year +‎ -ling. Cognate with Dutch jaarling (“yearling”), German Jährling (“yearling”).

yearling (plural yearlings)

An animal that is between one and two years old; one that is in its second year (but not yet two full years old).
a yearling lamb
- 2021 August 25, Henry Fountain, Benjamin Rasmussen, “‘The Worst Thing I Can Ever Remember’: How Drought Is Crushing Ranchers”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:
  Tom Fettig and his wife, Kim, were there with 60 yearlings, about half of a herd they were helping their son raise on the outskirts of Bismarck.
A racehorse that is considered to be one year old until a subsequent January 1st.
(US) A sophomore at West Point military academy.
Synonym: (slang) yuck
- 1910, H. Irving Hancock, Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point, page 84:
  "But is a plebe forbidden to stroll here?"
  "If a plebe did have the brass to try it," replied Anstey slowly, "I reckon he would have to fight the whole yearling class in turn."
- 2014, Michael E. Haskew, West Point 1915 (page 57)
  As a yearling, he admitted to doing his part in ensuring that plebes knew their place at the Academy, […]

one-year-old animal

Asturian: aneyu m
Catalan: primal m, primala f
Danish: åring c
Dutch: jaarling (nl) m
Finnish: vuosikas (fi)
Galician: anello (gl) m
Georgian: ერთი წლის ცხოველი (erti c̣lis cxoveli)
German: Jährling (de) m
Irish: athrón m (seal), colann f (calf), colpach f (heifer or bullock), dairt f (heifer), fóisc f (ewe)
Macedonian: го́динак m (gódinak), годи́наче n (godínače)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ettåring m, åring m

Nynorsk: eittåring m, åring m, vetlide m
Polish: roczniak (pl) m
Portuguese: anelho (pt) m
Spanish: añojo (es) m (bull), primal m or f (sheep, goat)
Swedish: ettåring (sv) c
Turkish: toklu (tr) sg
Ottoman Turkish: طوقلو (toklu) (lamb)

yearling m (plural yearlings)