wean

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

1. (transitive) To cease giving breast milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder.
2. (broadly, often, transitive) To cease giving breast milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder.
3. (intransitive) To cease to depend on the mother's milk for nutrition.
4. (broadly, transitive) To cause to quit something to which one is addicted, dependent, or habituated.
5. (broadly, intransitive) To cease to depend.
6. (broadly, obsolete, transitive) To raise, to help grow toward maturity

Noun

A young child.

Conceptos

destetar

desahijar

fraccionar

descontinuar

dejar de mamar

arrancar

romper torciendo

dividir

Sinónimos

ablactate

wee ’un

alien

👽

alienate

cease

cut off

depart

detox

detoxify

disengage

estrange

gather

give up

halt

harvest

pick

⛏️

pinch

pluck

pull apart

rip off

separate

snap

straggle

tear off

unteach

withdraw

snap off

snip off

divorce

weaning

stop

🛑

be weaned

ablactation

Traducciones

sevrer

svezzare

entwöhnen

απογαλακτίζω

desmamar

divezzare

spenen

abstillen

deslletar

soğutmak

ontwennen

memeden kesmek

sütten kesmek

desmamar

ξεκόβω

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/wiːn/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: wenen

Heredado de inglés antiguo: wenian

Cognado con neerlandés: wennen

Cognado con alemán: gewöhnen

Cognado con danés: vænne

Cognado con sueco: vänja

Cognado con islandés: venja

In summary

From Middle English wenen, from Old English wenian (“to accustom; habituate; train; prepare; make fit”), from Proto-West Germanic *wannjan, from Proto-Germanic *wanjaną (“to make wont; accustom”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive for; wish; love”).
Cognate with Dutch wennen, German gewöhnen, Danish vænne, Swedish vänja, Icelandic venja. Related via PIE to wone, wont, and wonder, and perhaps win.