foal: [OE] Foal goes back to a prehistoric source meaning ‘young, offspring’, which also produced Latin puer ‘child’ and English pony, poultry, pullet, pullulate, and even pool ‘common fund’. Its main Germanic descendant was *folon, which gave German fohlen and füllen, Dutch veulen, Swedish f?l, and English foal, but another derivative of the same Germanic base produced English filly [15], probably borrowed from Old Norse fylja. => filly, pony, pool, poultry, pullet, pullulate
foal (n.)
Old English fola "foal, colt," from Proto-Germanic *fulon (cognates: Old Saxon folo, Middle Dutch volen, Dutch veulen, Old Norse foli, Old Frisian fola, Old High German folo, German Fohlen, Gothic fula), from PIE *pulo- "young of an animal" (cognates: Greek polos "foal," Latin pullus "a young animal," Albanian pele "mare"), suffixed form of root *pau- (1) "few, little" (see few).
foal (v.)
"give birth (to a foal)," late 14c., from foal (n.). Related: Foaled; foaling.
雙語例句
1. Comet also sired the champion foal out of Spinway Harvest.
“彗星”還跟“斯平威·哈維斯特”生下了這匹出類拔萃的小馬駒。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The mare is due to foal today.
母馬今天要下小馬駒了。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The mare has just thrown a foal in the stable.
那匹母馬剛剛在馬廄里產下了一只小馬駒.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. The mare is carrying a foal now.
這匹牝馬已懷駒了.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. I'm a foal. I'm your granddaughter. Come with me.