beaverling

noun

Etymology

From beaver + -ling.

  1. inherited from *bʰébʰrus
  2. inherited from *bebruz
  3. inherited from *bebru
  4. inherited from befer
  5. inherited from bever
  6. suffixed as beaverling — “beaver + ling

Definitions

  1. A small, young, or juvenile beaver.

    • The wife stumbled into the water, and as soon as her loot was wet, she immediately resumed her old shape as a beaver, her son became a beaverling, and the brooklet, changing to a roaring river, bore them to the lake.

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