The story
- Middle English · inherited fromyerling
- English todayyearling
From Middle English yerling, yerlyng, equivalent to year + -ling. Cognate with Dutch jaarling (“yearling”), German Jährling (“yearling”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
yearling
Today it means: An animal that is between one and two years old; one that is in its second year (but not yet two full years old). Full definition →
Middle English yerling