different between gelding vs foal

English

Etymology

From Middle English geldyng, geldynge, from Old Norse geldingr (“wether, eunuch”), from gelda (“to castrate”), equivalent to geld (“to castrate”) +? -ing (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ld??/
• Rhymes: -?ld??

Noun

gelding (plural geldings)

1. A castrated male horse.
2. Any castrated male animal.
3. (archaic) A eunuch.
   • 1382–1395, John Wycliffe et al. (translators), Acts viii. 38

     They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him.

Translations

Verb

gelding

1. present participle of geld

Anagrams

• Gedling, gingled, ledging, niggled

Icelandic

Etymology

From gelda (“to geld, to castrate”) +? -ing (“-ing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?c?lti?k/
• Rhymes: -?lti?k

Noun

gelding f (genitive singular geldingar, nominative plural geldingar)

1. castration, gelding

Declension

Related terms

• gelda (“to geld, to castrate”)
• geldingur (“gelding, wether”)

English

Etymology

From Middle English fole, from Old English fola, from Proto-West Germanic *fol?, from Proto-Germanic *fulô, from pre-Germanic *pl?Hon-, from Proto-Indo-European *p?lH- (“animal young”) (cognate with Saterland Frisian Foole, West Frisian fôle, foalle, Dutch veulen, German Low German Fohl, German Fohlen, Swedish fåle; compare also Ancient Greek ????? (pôlos), Latin pullus, Albanian pelë (“mare”), Old Armenian ??? (ul, “kid, fawn”). Related to filly.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f??l/, /f??l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fo?l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Noun

foal (plural foals)

1. A young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old.
2. (mining, historical) A young boy who assisted the headsman by pushing or pulling the tub.

Translations

Verb

foal (third-person singular simple present foals, present participle foaling, simple past and past participle foaled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:

     All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled.

   • 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, Chapter 22^[1]:

     "Well," said John, "I don't believe there is a better pair of horses in the country, and right grieved I am to part with them, but they are not alike; the black one is the most perfect temper I ever knew; I suppose he has never known a hard word or a blow since he was foaled, and all his pleasure seems to be to do what you wish […]

Translations

See also

• colt
• filly
• horseling
• mare
• stallion

Anagrams

• AFOL, Olaf, loaf