Originally Posted by
Muley Hunter
Here's another way to put it. You're asked. What's the difference between a fawn and a lamb? Your answer would be what?
Etymology was a serious interest for a few years, I took courses in Latin and Etymology. The Only related English courses I ever really enjoyed.
Going back and looking at the evolution of both words.
Lamb *can be* basically, "innocent".
Fawn can be the young of any animal, "young animal".
Language evolves.
Here, large ruminant young are called Kalb (Calf) small Ruminant young are call Kitz.
They may call them Lambs (just a guess) because they make a very similar noise when they are calling their mothers. A Doe may abandon a very youngFawn when threatened, my take on it is they lead the predator away. Fawn are scent neutral, hard to find. Fawn will bleat to lead the mother back to the spot where she left the Fawn, often after dark.