pullus

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  A chick; a young bird in the downy stage.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  A pullus; the young chick of a bird.

Etymology 1
Disputed; two etymologies are plausible: Alternatively, like.
 * From, from ; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and , 🇨🇬. The verbal root is likely found in 🇨🇬, which implies a connection to , from with a semantic shift of “to push (out)” > “to beget”, if not a distinct root.
 * From, also found in , 🇨🇬 and perhaps 🇨🇬 (which would indicate ), 🇨🇬. De Vaan reconstructs , which he considers a variant of . The presence of an earlier apical consonant in the stem in Latin is evidenced by the in the diminutive adjective . Some authors connect these to the root  (compare ,  and , 🇨🇬), but the morphology is unclear and the complete disappearance of the laryngeal is hard to explain.

Noun

 * 1) a young animal
 * 2) chick, chicken
 * 3) foal
 * 4)  darling

Descendants

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 * Borrowings



Etymology 2
Probably from (maybe a weak form of ) or, from the root , thereby related to , though the formal details are debated.

Adjective

 * 1) dark-colored, dark gray; dusky