yong
Middle English
/junɡ/
adjective
Definitions
- Early in growth or life; young.
- Characteristic of a young person; youthful.
- (figurative) Innocent.
- Having little experience; inexperienced, unpractised.
- Being the younger of two people of the same name, usually related; junior.
- At an early stage of existence or development.
- (of meat) Tender.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English ġeong inherited from Proto-Germanic *jungaz.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*jungaz
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Young Irelander English
- nonyoung English
- unyoung English
- young English
- youngblood English
- youngen English
- youngfolk English
- younghead English
- younghood English
- youngie English
- youngish English
- youngling English
- youngly English
- youngness English
- youngsome English
- youngster English
- youngstock English
- youngth English
- youth English
- *h₂yuh₁en- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂yuh₁n̥ḱós Proto-Indo-European
- *yuwn̥kós Proto-Indo-European
- *jungaz Proto-Germanic
- edgeong Old English
- geong Old English
- geonga Old English
- geongling Old English
- ġeong Old English
- ungr Old Norse
- jung Old High German
- 𐌾𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍃 Gothic
- *jung gmw-pro
- jung Old Dutch
- yangpela Tok Pisin