puppy · cub (the young of certain other animals, generally mammals) · pup (young of foxes, seals or sea lions)
çekim: çoğul cachorros
köken: Uncertain. Likely inherited from Vulgar Latin *cattulus, from Latin catŭlus (“whelp, puppy”), plus the suffix -orro; whence also Portuguese cachorro. If so, a doublet of cacho (“chub”). An alternative link to Basque txakur, xakur (“puppy”) has been proposed, but it is often dismissed as speculative.
whelp, young mammal of certain carnivorous species, notably a canine pup, bear cub or lion cub · human youngster, especially a boy scout in the age group 8–11.
çekim: çoğul welpen
köken: From Middle Dutch welp, from Old Dutch welp, from Proto-Germanic *hwelpaz.
chicken · chick · cub, youngling, nestling, whelp, young of an animal, or less commonly of people
çekim: çoğul puilor · tamlayan puiului
köken: Inherited from Latin pullus, probably through a Vulgar Latin root *pulleus, or alternatively formed from the plural of an original Romanian form *pul. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *polH- (“animal young”). Compare Spanish pollo and Italian pollo.
whelp · young dog, puppy, young wolf · iron fetter
çekim: çoğul catulī · tamlayan catulī
köken: From Proto-Italic *katelos (“cub”), with parallel in Umbrian 𐌊𐌀𐌕𐌄𐌋 (katel, “a sacrificial animal”, nom. sg.). Despite IE cognates such as Old Irish cadla (“goat”), Middle High German hatele (“goat”), Old Norse haðna (“young goat”), Serbo-Croatian kot (“(time of) having young, litter, breed”), dial. Polish kót (“place where forest animals young”), Russian око́т (okót, “lambing time, litter”), De…