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English
Etymology 1
From Middle English yowe, yeue, forms of ewe, from Old English eowu. Compare Scots cognate yowe.
Alternative forms
Noun
yowe (plural yowes)
- (dialect, UK, Scotland) A ewe; a female sheep.
1902, James Thomson, Recollections of a Speyside parish:The ram was marked wi' keel at the reet o' the tail an' the yowes upon their hips.
Etymology 2
Pronoun
yowe
- Obsolete form of you.
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
yowe
- Alternative form of ewe
Etymology 2
Pronoun
yowe
- Alternative form of yow
- 1440, Letter, in: 1841, Joseph Stevenson (editor), The Correspondence, Inventories, Account Rolls, and Law Proceedings of the Priory of Coldingham, page 116:
Wirshipfull sir, I commend me to yowe; thankyng yowe of all tendirnesse and labour of lang time shewid to my brether and our cell of Coldyngham, prayand yowe of yowr goode continuance.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English ewe, from Old English eowu, from Proto-Germanic *awiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”).
Pronunciation
Noun
yowe (plural yowes)
- ewe (female sheep)
1794, Robert Burns, The Highland Widow's Lament:And there I had three score o' yowes, / Ochon, Ochon, Ochrie! / Skipping on yon bonie knowes, / And casting woo' to me.- And there I had three score of ewes (sixty), / Alas, alas, alack! / Skipping on the beautiful knolls yonder, / And providing wool for me.
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Swahili
Pronunciation
Noun
yowe (ma class, plural mayowe)
- shout (a loud burst of voice)
Acha kupiga mayowe- Don't shout
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English yowe, from Old English eowu, from Proto-West Germanic *awi, from Proto-Germanic *awiz.
Noun
yowe
- ewe; a female sheep
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 80