ewe
Translingual[edit]
Symbol[edit]
ewe
English[edit]

Etymology[edit]
From Middle English ewe, from Old English eowu, from Proto-West Germanic *awi, from Proto-Germanic *awiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /juː/, /juʊ̯/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (Southern American English, archaic) IPA(key): /joʊ̯/
- (Ireland) IPA(key): /joː/
- Rhymes: -uː
- Homophones: eau, u, yew, you (in almost all dialects)
- Homophone: yo (Ireland, archaic Southern US)
- Homophones: hew, hue, Hugh (in h-dropping dialects)
Noun[edit]
ewe (plural ewes)
- A female sheep, as opposed to a ram.
- Antonym: ram
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 31:38, column 2:
- This twentie yeeres haue I bene with thee: thy ewes and thy ſhee goates haue not caſt their yong, and the rammes of thy flocke haue I not eaten.
Synonyms[edit]
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Translations[edit]
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See also[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Chuukese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Article[edit]
ewe (plural ekkewe)
- the (singular)
Usage notes[edit]
When used with a possessive, the word used is we.
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ewe
- Ewe (member of a West African ethnic group)
- Ewe (language)
- Used also adjectivally with a hyphen or in genitive plural
- ewe-kulttuuri; ewejen kulttuuri
- Ewe culture
- ewe-kansa
- Ewe people
- ewejen kieli
- Ewe language
- ewe-kulttuuri; ewejen kulttuuri
- In plural (ewet), the Ewe (ethnic group)
Declension[edit]
Inflection of ewe (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | ewe | ewet | ||
genitive | ewen | ewejen | ||
partitive | eweä | ewejä | ||
illative | eween | eweihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | ewe | ewet | ||
accusative | nom. | ewe | ewet | |
gen. | ewen | |||
genitive | ewen | ewejen | ||
partitive | eweä | ewejä | ||
inessive | ewessä | eweissä | ||
elative | ewestä | eweistä | ||
illative | eween | eweihin | ||
adessive | ewellä | eweillä | ||
ablative | eweltä | eweiltä | ||
allative | ewelle | eweille | ||
essive | ewenä | eweinä | ||
translative | eweksi | eweiksi | ||
instructive | — | ewein | ||
abessive | ewettä | eweittä | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Mam[edit]
Adverb[edit]
ewe
Maori[edit]
Noun[edit]
ewe
Middle Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Dutch ēwa, from Proto-West Germanic *aiw.
Noun[edit]
êwe f
Inflection[edit]
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Alternative forms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “ewe”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “ewe”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Middle English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Inherited from Old English eowu, from Proto-West Germanic *awi, from Proto-Germanic *awiz.
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ewe (plural ewen)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Dobson, E. J. (1957) English pronunciation 1500-1700[1], volume II: Phonology, second edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1968, →OCLC, § 244, page 799.
- ^ Jordan, Richard (1974), Eugene Crook, transl., Handbook of the Middle English Grammar: Phonology (Janua Linguarum; 214)[2], The Hague: Mouton & Co. N.V., , § 108, page 127.
- ^ “eue, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-10.
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
ewe
- Alternative form of ew
Middle High German[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old High German ēwa, akin to Old English ǣ.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ēwe ?
Descendants[edit]
Old French[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ewe f (oblique plural ewes, nominative singular ewe, nominative plural ewes)
- Alternative form of iaue (“water”)
- a. 1350, Holkham Bible:
- E caunt ele estoyt de tut chargé
La ewe vint curant a grant plenté.- And when it [the Ark] was fully loaded
the waters ran high and fast.
- And when it [the Ark] was fully loaded
- c. 1170, Wace, Le Roman de Rou:
- L'ewe est bele e parfond qui en la cité cort
- The water which runs through the city is beautiful and deep
- c. 1200, Marie de France, Guigemar:
- En bacins d'or ewe aporterent
- They brought water in basins made of gold
Related terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
ewe f (oblique plural ewes, nominative singular ewe, nominative plural ewes)
- mare (adult female horse)
Pennsylvania German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle High German eben, from Old High German eban. Compare German eben, Dutch even, English even.
Adjective[edit]
ewe
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ewe Eʋeawó (“Ewe people”).
Noun[edit]
ewe c
- Ewe (language)
Tocharian B[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ewes- (“covering”), from *h₃ew- (“to put on clothes, shoes”). Cognate with Latin *uo (“to put on clothes”), Lithuanian auti (“to put on shoes”), etc.
Noun[edit]
ewe ?
Further reading[edit]
- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013), “ewe”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 103-104
Xhosa[edit]
Etymology[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
ewé
Yoruba[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Cognate with Itsekiri ìwé, perhaps also related to Edo èbé, Urhobo ẹbe, see Doublet of ìwé
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ewé
- leaf, foliage
- The leaves of the plants Thaumatococcus daniellii and Megaphrynium macrostachyum, which are used in wrapping foods.
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
èwe
- adolescent, youth, young person
Derived terms[edit]
- ìgbà èwe (“childhood, adolescence”)
Etymology 3[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- eè (Èkìtì)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ewè
- A common species of edible fungi, Termitomyces robustus
- Ọmọ Ọbalùú kò gbọ́dọ̀ jẹ ewè ― The subjects of the King (of the town of Ẹ̀fọ̀n) must never eat the ewe mushroom (The people of Ẹ̀fọ̀n regard it as a taboo to eat this specific species of mushroom)
Zazaki[edit]
Noun[edit]
ewe
- Translingual lemmas
- Translingual symbols
- Translingual palindromes
- ISO 639-2
- ISO 639-3
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
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- English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
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- Rhymes:English/uː
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- en:Female animals
- en:Sheep
- Chuukese terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Finnish terms derived from Ewe
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ewe
- Rhymes:Finnish/ewe/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms spelled with W
- Finnish palindromes
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- fi:Languages
- Mam lemmas
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- Middle English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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- Middle English terms derived from Old English
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- Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Middle English/ɛu̯(ə)
- Rhymes:Middle English/ɛu̯(ə)/1 syllable
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Middle English palindromes
- enm:Female animals
- enm:Livestock
- enm:Sheep
- Middle High German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Middle High German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Middle High German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
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- Middle High German terms inherited from Old High German
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- Old French terms inherited from Latin
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- Old French lemmas
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- Old French feminine nouns
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- Old French terms with quotations
- fro:Female animals
- fro:Horses
- fro:Water
- Pennsylvania German terms inherited from Middle High German
- Pennsylvania German terms derived from Middle High German
- Pennsylvania German terms inherited from Old High German
- Pennsylvania German terms derived from Old High German
- Pennsylvania German lemmas
- Pennsylvania German adjectives
- Pennsylvania German palindromes
- Swedish terms derived from Niger-Congo languages
- Swedish terms derived from Ewe
- Swedish lemmas
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- Swedish terms spelled with W
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- Tocharian B terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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- txb:Anatomy
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- yo:Fungi
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