different between alew vs lew

English

Etymology

Imitative. Compare halloo.

Noun

alew (plural alews)

1. (obsolete, rare) A cry of despair.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.6:

     Yet did she not lament with loude alew, / As women wont, but with deepe sighes and singults few.

Anagrams

• e-law, lawe, wale, weal

Gothic

Romanization

alew

1. Romanization of ????????????????

English

Etymology 1

From corruption of French louis, from Louis, presumably Louis IX or Louis XI, who issued gold écus.

Noun

lew (plural lews or lewis or leois)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) A French gold coin circulated in 15th-century Scotland.
   • 1467, Scottish Acts of James III, Vol. II, p. 88:

     ...þe Ingliss noble, henry, ande Eduarde w^t þe ross, þe franche crowne, þe salute þe lewe and þe Ridar sall haif courss in þis realme...

Alternative forms

• lewe

Etymology 2

From Middle English lew, lewe, from Old English hl?ow, hl?owe (“warm, sunny, sheltered”), from Proto-Germanic *hlewaz, *hliwjaz, *hl?waz (“warm, lukewarm”), from Proto-Indo-European *?al(w)e-, *?l?w- (“warm, hot”). Cognate with Old Norse hlýr (“warm, mild”), ( > Danish ly (“lukewarm”)), hlær, German lau, which are themselves akin to Old Norse hlé (“lee”), Danish læ (“shelter”). Compare lee.

Alternative forms

• lue, loo, looe, lee, loo

Adjective

lew (comparative lewer, superlative lewest)

1. (obsolete) Sunny; warm.
2. (dialect) Lukewarm, tepid.
3. (dialect) Alee: protected from the wind.
   • 1674, J. Ray, "South & East Countrey Words" in Coll. Eng. Words, p. 70:

     Lee or Lew, Calm, under the wind. Suss.

   • 1892, H. C. O'Neill, Devonshire Idyls, p. 7:

     His house... was ‘loo’ from the cold north winds.

Usage notes

Now chiefly Southern Scottish and Northern English.

Noun

lew (plural lews)

1. (now Scotland) Warmth, heat.
   • 1605, J. Sylvester translating G. de S. Du Bartas as Deuine Weekes & Wks, Book i, Ch. iv, p. 136:

     To th' end a fruitfull lew
     May euerie Climate in his time renew.

2. (dialect) A shelter from the wind, particularly temporary structures raised by shepherds to protect their flocks.
   • 1825, J. Jennings, Observ. Dial. W. Eng., p. 52:

     Lew, shelter; defence from storms or wind.

   • 1887, W. D. Parish & al., Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect:

     Lew, a thatched hurdle, supported by sticks, and set up in a field to screen lambs, etc. from the wind.

Derived terms

• house-lew

Verb

lew (third-person singular simple present lews, present participle lewing, simple past and past participle lewed)

1. (transitive) To make warm or lukewarm.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To become warm.
3. (transitive) To shelter from the wind.
   • 1887, W. D. Parish & al., Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect:

     Lew... Those trees will lew the house when they're up-grown.

Etymology 3

Of uncertain etymology, but compare Old English ?elewed (“weakness, infirmity”) and liml?weo (“limb-weak, lame”). Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *laiw? (“damage”); compare Old Norse læ (“venom, bane”).

Adjective

lew (comparative more lew, superlative most lew)

1. Weak.
2. Sickly-looking, pale, wan.
   • c. 1325,, "Old Age" in T. Wright & al.'s 1845 Reliquiae Antiquae, Vol. II, p. 211:

     Mi bodi wexit lewe.

Etymology 4

Variant of lo (q.v.).

Interjection

lew

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of lo or look: a cry to look at something.
   • a. 1500, Towneley Plays, Book I, Scene iii, l. 46:

     Hence bot a litill She commys, lew, lew!

Derived terms

• looky-loo

Etymology 5

Variant of lue (q.v.).

Verb

lew (third-person singular simple present lews, present participle lewing, simple past and past participle lewed)

1. (mining, dialect, transitive) Alternative form of lue: to sift, particularly while mining tin or silver.
   • 1674, John Ray, A Collection of English Words, Not Generally Used, p. 122:

     Cornwall... The fine [sc. tin] is lewed in a fine sierce.

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “lew”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• lew in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• we'l

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *llew, from Latin le?.

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [l???]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [le??]

Noun

lew m (plural lewyon)

1. lion

Gothic

Romanization

l?w

1. Romanization of ????????????

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?f/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *l?v?. Probably via a Germanic language, from Latin le?.

Noun

lew m anim (diminutive lewek, augmentative lwisko, feminine lwica)

1. lion
2. (heraldry) lion

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Bulgarian ??? (lev).

Noun

lew m inan

1. lev

Declension

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

lew f

1. genitive plural of lewa

Further reading

• lew in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• lew in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch leeuw.

Noun

lew

1. lion

Welsh

Noun

lew

1. Soft mutation of llew.

Mutation

Zazaki

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *leb-, cognate with Persian ??? (lab), English lip etc.

Noun

lew ?

1. (anatomy) lip