yean
yean — verb
- yeanpresent simple I / you / we / they
- yeans3rd person singular
- yeaning-ing form
- yeanedpast simple
1. if a female sheep or goat yeans, it gives birth to its young; the word is used m
if a female sheep or goat yeans, it gives birth to its young; the word is used mainly in older farming or literary writing.
The old ewe yeaned a healthy lamb just before dawn.
subject: ewe; object: lamb
The farmer stayed up all night watching the goats yean.
intransitive use: watch + animal + infinitive
When the goat yeaned twins, the children ran to tell their mother.
The shepherd wrote down the date each ewe yeaned in his notebook.
Snow fell as the first ewe of the season yeaned her lamb in the barn.
- lamb
used specifically for sheep giving birth; far more common than yean in modern farming
- kid
used specifically for goats giving birth; also more common than yean today
- give birth
the neutral, everyday verb for any animal or human; always correct and never archaic
文法句型
yean + (object: lamb/kid)
subject (ewe/doe/goat) + yean
用法筆記
Virtually never used in modern everyday conversation. Learners may encounter it in historical fiction, older poetry, or dialect writing. For modern contexts, use give birth or lamb / kid (verb).