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(we don't really have an English word for baby lion) Cub?
by yesbabyyes 8y ago
(we don't really have an English word for baby lion)
Cub?
- pdpi 8y agoDefinitely better than puppy, but not quite specific to lions.
- code_duck 8y agoIt’s specific to lions, just not exclusive to lions.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoOoh, pedantry, my kind of thread: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/specific https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/specific I think it fails on most if not all definitions of specific. "Lion cub" is specific, lion and cub are both specifiers. But "cub" is specific to juveniles of a range of species; so I'd say "not specific to lions". Interesting then to think which species do have specific English single-word names for juveniles. Owlets, foals, and joeys spring to mind ... French has louveteau for a wolf cub, perhaps it has a specific lion cub word too? I'd imagine Kiswahili to have a specific word, perhaps?
- codetrotter 8y agoYes. I like how Google translate wrote it when translating the Spanish version; "the cat's son is a kitten; the son of the lion, cub".
- durkie 8y agoOh yeah! Definitely better.