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| ⚫ | #* '''1440''', Letter, '''1841''', Joseph Stevenson (editor), ''The Correspondence, Inventories, Account Rolls, and Law Proceedings of the Priory of Coldingham'', [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=LCtSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA116&dq=%22yowe%22%7C%22yowes%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jKpkU-HqKs7c8AXi24GQBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22yowe%22%7C%22yowes%22&f=false page 116] |
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| ⚫ | #* '''1440''', Letter, in: '''1841''', Joseph Stevenson (editor), ''The Correspondence, Inventories, Account Rolls, and Law Proceedings of the Priory of Coldingham'', [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=LCtSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA116&dq=%22yowe%22%7C%22yowes%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jKpkU-HqKs7c8AXi24GQBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22yowe%22%7C%22yowes%22&f=false page 116]: |
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Revision as of 14:01, 21 December 2019
English
Etymology 1
Noun
yowe (plural yowes)
- (archaic, 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
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.
- 1440, Letter, in: 1841, Joseph Stevenson (editor), The Correspondence, Inventories, Account Rolls, and Law Proceedings of the Priory of Coldingham, page 116:
References
- “you, (pron.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 May 2018.
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English ewe, from Old English ēowu, from Proto-Germanic *awiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”).
Pronunciation
Noun
yowe (plural yowes)
- ewe (female sheep)
Coordinate terms
- tuip (“ram”)
Derived terms
- fir-yowe (“fir cone”)
- great-yowe (“ewe in lamb”)
- yowie (diminutive)
Swahili
Noun
yowe (ma class, plural mayowe)
- shout (a loud burst of voice)
- Acha kupiga mayowe
- Don't shout
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