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語源 1

From 中期英語 *farow, *fargh (found only in the plural faren), from 古期英語 fearh (“piglet”), from Proto-West Germanic *farh, from Proto-Germanic *farhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos, from *perḱ- (“to dig”).

See also Old High German farah, Middle Irish orc (“piglet”), Latin porcus, Proto-Slavic *porsę (“pig, piglet”), Lithuanian par̃šas, Avestan: 𐬞𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬯𐬀 (pərsa). Doublet of pork.

名詞

farrow (plural farrows)

1. A litter of piglets.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 15]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     Aha! I know you, gammer! Hamlet, revenge! The old sow that eats her farrow!

   • 1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19:

     At full speed he ran into a pigsty, where a sow was lying on her side with a farrow of eleven tugging at her.

   • 1949, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces:

     She is the womb and the tomb: the sow that eats her farrow.

語源 2

From 中期英語 farwen, from the noun.

動詞

farrow (third-person singular simple present farrows, present participle farrowing, simple past and past participle farrowed)

1. To give birth to (a litter of piglets).

派生語

語源 3

Cognate with 古期英語 fearr (“bull”).

形容詞

farrow (not comparable)

1. (of cows) Not pregnant; not producing young (not calving) in a given season or year; barren.