wean

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

svezzare

divezzare

strappare

dividere

frazionare

slattare

rompere stortando

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

sevrer

entwöhnen

destetar

απογαλακτίζω

desmamar

abstillen

spenen

desahijar

deslletar

soğutmak

memeden kesmek

sütten kesmek

ontwennen

desmamar

ξεκόβω

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/wiːn/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: wenen

Ereditato da inglese antico: wenian

Affine olandese: wennen

Affine tedesco: gewöhnen

Affine danese: vænne

Affine svedese: vänja

Affine islandese: 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.