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a-, an-: Pronunciation: /ə/, /a/, /ən/, /an/.Origin: Ancient Greek: ἀ-, ἀν-(a, an-). Meaning: a prefix used to make words with a sense opposite to that of the ...
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
The tigon is a hybrid offspring of a male tiger (Panthera tigris) and a female lion, or lioness (Panthera leo). [1] They exhibit visible characteristics from both parents: they can have both spots from the mother (lions carry genes for spots – lion cubs are spotted and some adults retain faint markings) and stripes from the father.
Researchers captured a record-breaking swim by two male lions through crocodile-infested waters as the big cats sought mates and new territory.
The most common suffixes are -άκης/-akis and -ούλης/-ulis for the male gender, -ίτσα/-itsa and -ούλα/-ula for the female gender, and -άκι/-aki for the neutral gender. Several of them are common as suffixes of surnames , originally meaning the offspring of a certain person, e.g. Παπάς/Papas "priest" with ...
The three adorable mountain lion cubs named Fern, Thistle and Spruce were believed to have been orphaned after their mother was killed by a car. Three orphaned mountain lion cubs get TLC at ...
Some gender-related suffixes are almost never perceived as related to grammatical gender, for example -itis, a suffix meaning inflammation, which is derived from Greek feminines. Many words that retain their feminine endings refer to geographical regions (for example Africa) and stars (for example lucida).
-ina (female equivalent of -in; especially rare for male names, but the suffix alone is an actual female name) [citation needed]-yn (Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian) possessive [citation needed]-in (French) diminutive [citation needed]