pur-lamb
/ˈpəːlam/(also purr-lamb, per-lamb) In later use English regional (chiefly south-western )
noun
A male lamb.
- Applied variously to castrated or to uncastrated lambs..
Origin
Old English. From a first element of uncertain origin (perhaps related to German regional (Low German: Westphalia) purre small child (rare), of uncertain origin; perhaps compare Norwegian regional purre ram, also used as a call to (especially male) sheep) + lamb.
- donator
- Donatus, Aelius
- Donau
- do-naught
- Donbas
- monotelic
- monoterpene
- monoterpenoid
- Monotessaron
- monothalamous
- monothecal
- monothecous
- monotheism
- monotheist
- monotheistic
- monotheistically
- Monothelete
- Monotheletism
- Monothelite
- Monothelitic
- Monothelitism
- monothematic
- monotherapy
- monothetic
- monothetically