foal

来自PIE*pulo, 小的，小动物，词源同pullet, pupil, filly.

foal

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 föl, 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.

1. Comet also sired the champion foal out of Spinway Harvest.

“彗星”还跟“斯平威·哈维斯特”生下了这匹出类拔萃的小马驹。

2. The mare is due to foal today.

母马今天要下小马驹了。

3. The mare has just thrown a foal in the stable.

那匹母马刚刚在马厩里产下了一只小马驹.

4. The mare is carrying a foal now.

这匹牝马已怀驹了.

5. I'm a foal. I'm your granddaughter. Come with me.

我是一匹小马.我是你的孙女. 请跟我来.