farrow: [OE] Farrow, nowadays used mainly as a verb for ‘give birth to a litter of pigs’, originally meant ‘young pig’. Its ultimate source was Indo- European *porkos (from which English also gets pork). The Germanic descendant of this was *farkhaz, which produced German ferkel ‘young pig’ and Dutch varken ‘pig’ (as in aardvark, literally ‘earth-pig’, originally from Afrikaans) as well as farrow. => aardvark, pork
farrow (n.)
Old English fearh "young pig," from Proto-Germanic *farkhaz "young pig" (cognates: Middle Low German ferken, Dutch varken, both diminutives; Old High German farh, German Ferkel "young pig, suckling pig"), from PIE *porko- (see pork (n.)). Sense of "a litter of pigs" first recorded 1570s, probably via the verb ("to bring forth piglets," of a sow), which is attested from early 13c.
权威例句
1. They planned to have the gilts farrow down about the end of this month.
他们计划让母猪约在本月底下仔.
2. Our sow had 15 at one farrow.
我们的母猪一胎下了15个小猪.
3. Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
爱尔兰就像是吞食自己小猪的母猪.
4. One kind of operation is called a farrow - to - wean farm.
有一种养殖方式叫从产崽到断奶养殖场.
5. Again a diagonal farrows works exactly the same as a normal farrow.