unweaned

1 8.8

A baby or young animal that is not yet eating food other than its mother's milk

adjective
/ˌʌnˈwiːnd/

: no destetado

She lays the girl on her left side in a fetal position, facing east and the muudi tree, the burial position of an unweaned child.

Examples

The farmers were careful to keep the unweaned calves close to their mothers for safety and nourishment.
As for the unweaned babies, the mothers who fed them had let them gradually die, not allowing them to suck their fill.

Fiction book (1998)
Unweaned puppies depend on their mother's milk for the first few weeks of life.
During the veterinary examination, we learned that the unweaned kitten was not gaining enough weight.

Antonyms

weaned

4.5

A young animal or child that no longer drinks its mother's milk and eats other food

Compounds

unweaned calf

7.2

A young cow or bull that still drinks its mother's milk

How Weaned

weaned

4.5

unweaned

1 8.8

suckling

1 6.1

Surface Forms

unweaned positive

unweaneder comparative

unweanedest superlative

Morphology

unweaned = weaned (transparent) = un + wean + ed

The negative prefix 'un-' straightforwardly negates the participial adjective 'weaned', yielding the literal meaning 'not weaned' which learners can derive from known components.

Etymology

The word unweaned is made of un- meaning 'not' and wean meaning 'to stop feeding a baby its mother's milk'. So, an unweaned child or animal is one that still drinks its mother's milk and has not yet begun to eat other food.