yearling

English

Etymology

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

Noun

yearling (plural yearlings)

1. 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.

2. A racehorse that is considered to be one year old until a subsequent January 1st.
3. (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, […]

Translations

one-year-old animal

• Asturian: aneyu m
• Catalan: primal m, primala f
• Danish: åring c
• Dutch: jaarling (nl) m
• 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

Anagrams

• grayline, layering, re-laying, relaying

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jœʁ.liŋ/, /jiʁ.liŋ/

Noun

yearling m (plural yearlings)

1. yearling

Further reading

• “yearling”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.