pullet的词源

英文词源

pullet

pullet: see poultry

pullet (n.)

late 14c., "young fowl" (late 13c. as a surname), from Anglo-French pullet, Old French poulette, poilette, diminutive of poule, poille "hen," from Vulgar Latin *pulla, fem. of Latin pullus "young animal," especially "young fowl" (source also of Spanish pollo "chicken," Italian pollo "fowl;" see foal (n.)). Technically, a young hen from the time she begins to lay until the first molt.

中文词源

pullet：小母鸡

来自古法语poule,小母鸡，来自拉丁语pullus,小动物，家禽，来自PIE*pulo,小动物，来自PIE*pau,小的，少的，词源同few,foal,filly.-et,小词后缀。

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