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Old Spanish
Etymology
From Latin ovicula (“little sheep”), diminutive of ovis (“sheep”), from Proto-Italic *owis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis.
Pronunciation
Noun
oueja f (plural ouejas)
- sheep, ewe
c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 4v:e dixoles aſſẏ. dezid amẏo ermano ſẽnor eſau. q̃l dẏze ſo ſieruo iacob. con laban more troa agora. ⁊ euacas ⁊ oueias. ⁊ ſieruos ⁊ ſieruas. […]- And he told them thus, “Tell my brother and master Esau that his servant Jacob says he has been staying with Laban till now. And I have cattle and sheep and manservants and maidservants ”
- Idem, f. 36r.
Job fue much rich õe e ouo .v. fijos. ⁊ .iij. fijas. ⁊ ouo .mil. ouejas. ⁊ .iij. mil. camellos. ⁊ .d. iugos de bueẏes. ⁊ .v. mil aſnas. ⁊ tẽtol el diablo ⁊ diol pođ nr̃o ſẽnor ſobre quãto auia.- Job was a very rich man. And he had five sons and three daughters. And he owned a thousand sheep and three thousand camels and five hundred yoke of oxen and five thousand donkeys. And the Devil tempted him and Our Lord gave him power over all that he had.
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