Word: nursling
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: nurs
ling
Definition: A young child or animal being nursed.
Morphemes:
Affix: nurse
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A wet nurse; a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else
Etymology Compounds: Affix: nūtrīcius
Language: la
Decoded: nutricius
Meaning: that nourishes
Affix: -le
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: A suffix forming diminutives from other nouns.
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs.