Animals And Their Babies
How curious and interesting to know the names of animals and their babies like tiger-cub, zebra-colt, pig-pigling, rabbit-bunny, cat-kitten, dog-puppy, cow-calf, lion-cub, and duck-duckling, pigeon-squab, hen-chicken etc., Maybe animals, birds, insects or other things. The names of these young ones are called diminutives in English. Most of these animals and their babies names are formed by adding suffixes like -et, -ette, -let, and -ling. Here is a useful diminutives list of those fascinating names.
| Sl.No. | Names of the Animal or Bird | Their Babies/Young Ones / Diminutives |
| 01 | animal | animalcule |
| 02 | ant | grub |
| 03 | ass | foal, colt |
| 04 | bear | cub |
| 05 | bee | grub |
| 06 | beaver | kitten |
| 07 | bird | birdie |
| 08 | buffalo | buffalo calf |
| 09 | bull | bullock |
| 10 | butterfly | caterpillar |
| 11 | cat | kitten |
| 12 | cock | cockerel |
| 13 | cockroach | nymph |
| 14 | cow | calf |
| 15 | deer | fawn |
| 16 | dog | pup, puppy |
| 17 | duck | duckling |
| 18 | eagle | eaglet |
| 19 | eel | elver |
| 20 | elephant | calf |
| 21 | elk | calf |
| 22 | fowl | chicken |
| 23 | fox | cub |
| 24 | frog | tadpole |
| 25 | goat | kid |
| 26 | goose | gosling |
| 27 | hawk | eyas |
| 28 | hare | leveret |
| 29 | hen | chicken |
| 30 | herring | brit |
| 31 | hippopotamus | calf |
| 32 | hill | hillock |
| 33 | hog | stoat |
| 34 | horse | colt, filly, foal |
| 35 | housefly | maggot |
| 36 | kangaroo | joey |
| 37 | lamb | lambkin |
| 38 | leopard | cub |
| 39 | lion | cub, whelp |
| 40 | monkey | infant |
| 41 | moose | calf |
| 42 | mosquito | wriggler, larva |
| 43 | moth | caterpillar |
| 44 | ox | stot, calf |
| 45 | owl | owlet |
| 46 | oyster | spat |
| 47 | pig | pigling |
| 48 | pigeon | squab |
| 49 | ram | lamb |
| 50 | rat | pup |
| 51 | rabbit | kitten, bunny, kit |
| 52 | salmon | parr |
| 53 | sheep | lamb |
| 54 | stag | fawn |
| 55 | swan | cygnet |
| 56 | tiger | cub |
| 57 | wolf | cub |
| 58 | zebra | colt, foal |
| Names of the Thing or Object | Their Small Things / Diminutives | |
| 59 | ankle | anklet |
| 60 | arm | armlet |
| 61 | art | article |
| 62 | ball | ballot |
| 63 | banner | banneret |
| 64 | baron | baronet |
| 65 | basin | basiner |
| 66 | bay | bight |
| 67 | book | booklet |
| 68 | brace | bracelet |
| 69 | brook | brooklet |
| 70 | cabin | cabinet |
| 71 | car | chariot |
| 72 | cask | casket |
| 73 | church | chapel |
| 74 | cigar | cigarette |
| 75 | circle | circlet |
| 76 | city | citadel |
| 77 | code | codicil |
| 78 | corn | kernel |
| 79 | cover | coverlet |
| 80 | crown | coronet |
| 81 | cut | cutlet |
| 82 | dame | damsel |
| 83 | dear | darling |
| 84 | double | doublet |
| 85 | drop | droplet |
| 86 | eye | eyelet |
| 87 | fat | fatling |
| 88 | flower | floweret |
| 89 | globe | globule |
| 90 | grain | granule |
| 91 | hire | hireling |
| 92 | ice | icicle |
| 93 | isle | islet |
| 94 | lance | lancet |
| 95 | lass | lassie |
| 96 | latch | latchet |
| 97 | leaf | leaflet |
| 98 | maid | maiden |
| 99 | man | manikin |
| 100 | midge | midget |
| 101 | mole | molecule |
| 102 | novel | novelette |
| 103 | nest | nestling |
| 104 | nurse | nurseling |
| 105 | pack | packet |
| 106 | part | particle |
| 107 | pile | pillow |
| 108 | pill | pilule |
| 109 | poet | poetaster |
| 110 | prince | princeling |
| 111 | puss | pussy |
| 112 | ring | ringlet |
| 113 | rip | ripple, ripplet |
| 114 | river | rivulet |
| 115 | root | rootlet |
| 116 | rose | rosette |
| 117 | sack | satchel |
| 118 | scythe | sickle |
| 119 | seat | saddle |
| 120 | seed | seedlet, seedling |
| 121 | shade | shadow |
| 122 | sign | signet |
| 123 | snip | snippet |
| 124 | sock | socket |
| 125 | spark | sparkle, sparklet |
| 126 | star | asterisk, starlet |
| 127 | statue | statuette |
| 128 | stream | streamlet |
| 129 | suck | suckling |
| 130 | tower | turret |
| 131 | verse | versicle |
| 132 | waggon | waggonette |
| 133 | wave | wavelet |
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