Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To give birth to.
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 ġeēan, ġeēane (“yeaning”, adjective)), from Proto-West Germanic *gaaunōn, *aunōn (“to yean, lamb”), from *aunōną (“to yean, lamb”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷnós (“lamb”). Cognate with Scots yean (“to yean”), Saterland Frisian bejänne (“to produce; show signs of calving”), West Frisian antsje, eandsje, inje (“to yean”), Dutch onen (“to yean”), Swedish öna (“to yean”, dialectal). Akin also to Latin agnus, Ancient Greek ἀμνός (amnós), Old Irish úan (“lamb”). See also ean.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mention*yenenenm
- Inherited-form mention*ġeēanianang
- Cognate mentionġeēanang
- Inherited-form mention*gaaunōngmw-pro
- Derivation mention*h₂egʷnósine-pro
- Cognate mentionyeansco
- Cognate mentionbejännestq
- Cognate mentionantsjefy
- Cognate mentiononennl
- Cognate mentionönasv
- Cognate mentionἀμνόςgrc
- Cognate mentionúansga · lamb
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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