lowe

See also: lo'we, Lowe, and Löwe

English

Noun

lowe (plural lowes)

1. Alternative form of low ("flame").
   • 1786, Robert Burns, The Vision:

     An' by my ingle-lowe I saw, / Now bleezin' bright,

   • 1884, Richard Francis Burton, The lyricks [of] Camoens, translation of original by Luís de Camões, page 78:

     Love is a living Lowe that lurking burneth.

Anagrams

• Loew, owel, wole

Lindu

Noun

lowe

1. eagle

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Norse logi.

Alternative forms

• lawhe, loughe, low, lowhe
• logh, lou, loue (Northern, North Midland)
• lohe (AB language); loȝhe (Ormulum)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔu̯(ə)/

Noun

lowe (plural lowes)

1. Fire, blazing; massed flames.
2. A flame or blaze; an instance of fire.
3. (rare) Light or an instance of it; a glimmer.

Related terms

• lowen

Descendants

• English: low, lowe
• Middle Scots: low, lowe
  • Scots: low, lowe

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old English hlāw (also hlǣw), from Old English hlāwe, Old English hlǣwe), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaiw, from Proto-Germanic *hlaiwą, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-.

The final vowel is generalised from Old English hlāwe, either as a dative singular or as an occasional ō-stem accusative/genitive singular (either adopting the feminine gender as expected from ō-stems or remaining masculine).

Alternative forms

• lawe (Northern / North Midland); low (Late Middle English)
• law (Early Scots)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔu̯(ə)/

Noun

lowe (plural lowes)

1. A barrow or mound; a gently rising and rounded natural promontory.

Usage notes

• Since such a sense is known in both Old English and modern English, it is likely that this term could also refer to artificial burial mounds.

Descendants

• English: low; law
• Middle Scots: law
  • Scots: law, la

References

• “loue, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “low, n.¹”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• Kitson, Peter (1990), “On old English nouns of more than one gender”, in English Studies, volume 71, number 3, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 192-193.

Etymology 3

Verb

lowe

1. alternative form of loven (“to praise”)

Etymology 4

Verb

lowe

1. alternative form of lowen (“to moo”)

Etymology 5

Verb

lowe

1. alternative form of lowen (“to burn”)

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English lowe, loghe, from Old Norse logi (“fire, flame, sword”), from Proto-Germanic *lugô (“flame, blaze”).

Noun

lowe (plural lowes)

1. flame

   Is my brain no het aneugh, but ye maun set lowe to it, and burn it? (Alexander Leighton, ‘The House in Bell's Wynd’, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland)

   • 1786, Robert Burns, The Vision:

     An' by my ingle-lowe I saw, / Now bleezin' bright,

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English run away.

Verb

lowe

1. to flee, to run away, to escape

Derived terms

• lowenengre