yew
English
Etymology
From Middle English ew, from Old English īw, ēow, from Proto-Germanic *īwaz, *īhwaz (compare Icelandic ýr), masculine variant of *īwō (compare Dutch ijf, German Eibe), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHweh₂ (compare Hittite [script needed] (eja, “type of evergreen”), Welsh yw (“yews”), Latgalian īva (“bird cherry”), Lithuanian ievà (“bird cherry”), Russian и́ва (íva, “willow”)).[1]
Pronunciation
- enPR: yo͞o, IPA(key): /juː/, /jɪʊ̯/
- Rhymes: -uː
- Homophones: ewe, u, you, hew (in h-dropping dialects), hue (in h-dropping dialects)
Noun
yew (countable and uncountable, plural yews)
- (countable) A species of coniferous tree, Taxus baccata, with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia.
- (countable, by extension) Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus.
- Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus
- in family Podocarpaceae
- in family Cephalotaxaceae
- (uncountable) The wood of the such trees.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 37:
- To prevent a too great consumption of yew, bowyers were directed to make four bows of witch-hazel, ash or elm, to one of yew, and no person under seventeen years of age, unless possessed of moveables worth forty marks, of the son of parents having an estate of ten pounds per annum might shoot in an yew bow, under a penalty of 6s. 8d.
- A bow for archery, made of yew wood.
Synonyms
- (Taxus baccata): English yew(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
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Derived terms
terms derived from yew (noun)
- European yew, common yew (Taxus baccata)
- Pacific yew(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
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- Chinese yew (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata)
- Florida yew (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- Mexican yew (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- Sumatran yew (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- Himalayan yew (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- white-berry yew (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- New Caledonian yew, southern yew (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- catkin yew (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template. spp.)
- plum yew (also plum-yew) (Cephalotaxus spp. or Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template. spp.)
- Prince Albert's yew(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
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Translations
Taxus baccata
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tree or shrub of the genus Taxus
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wood of the yew
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Adjective
yew (not comparable)
- Made from the wood of the yew tree.
- Synonym: yewen
Translations
made from the wood of the yew tree
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See also
- Taxus baccata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
Anagrams
Middle English
Pronoun
yew
- Alternative form of yow
References
- “you, (pron.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 May 2018.
Noone
Noun
yew (plural yêw)
References
- R. Blench, Beboid Comparative
Zazaki
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Iranian *Haywas.
Numeral
yew
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