yowe

English

Etymology 1

Noun

yowe (plural yowes)

1. (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

1. Obsolete form of you.

Anagrams

• yeow

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

yowe

1. Alternative form of ewe

Etymology 2

Pronoun

yowe

1. 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.

References

• “you, (pron.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 May 2018.

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Scots

Etymology

From Middle English ewe, from Old English ēowu, from Proto-Germanic *awiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jʌu]

Noun

yowe (plural yowes)

1. 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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Coordinate terms

• tuip (“ram”)

Derived terms

• fir-yowe (“fir cone”)
• great-yowe (“ewe in lamb”)
• yowie (diminutive)

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Swahili

Noun

yowe (ma class, plural mayowe)

1. shout (a loud burst of voice)

   Acha kupiga mayowe

   Don't shout