2930: Kids Dec 29, 2024

The child of a goat, and the child of a person are both called, ‘kid’. Given its ubiquity in modern parlance, and the relative similarity between the words ‘child’ and ‘kid, ’you might assume that it always referred to people or was a dialectal form of ‘child’ but it originally only referred to baby goats just as lambs only refer to baby sheep. 

This is also very distantly related to ‘kit’, as in the offspring of certain animals like foxes, beavers, and of course ‘kitten’ for cats. 

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