different between archery vs yew

English

Etymology

From Middle English archerie, from Old French archerie, from archier (“archer”). Equivalent to archer +? -ery.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ärch?r?, IPA^(key): /??t???i?/, /??t???i?/
• Hyphenation: arch?er?y

Noun

archery (countable and uncountable, plural archeries)

1. (uncountable) The practice or sport of shooting arrows with a bow.
2. (countable) A group of archers.

Related terms

• archer
• bowman
• bowmanship
• toxophilite

Translations

English

Wikispecies

Etymology 1

From Middle English ew, from Old English ?w, ?ow, from Proto-Germanic *?waz, *?hwaz (compare Icelandic ýr), masculine variant of *?w? (compare Dutch ijf, German Eibe), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eyHweh?.

See also Hittite [script needed] (eja, “type of evergreen”), Welsh yw (“yews”), Irish eo [both cognates of Old English ?w, Old English ?ow]; and Latgalian ?va (“bird cherry”), Lithuanian ievà (“bird cherry”), Russian ???? (íva, “willow”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: yo?o, IPA^(key): /ju?/, /j???/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophones: ewe, u, you, hew (in h-dropping dialects), hue (in h-dropping dialects)

Noun

yew (countable and uncountable, plural yews)

1. (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.

   Synonyms: English yew, European yew, common yew

2. (countable, by extension) Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus.
3. Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus
   1. in family Podocarpaceae
   2. in family Cephalotaxaceae
4. (uncountable) The wood of the such trees.
5. A bow for archery, made of yew wood.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

yew (not comparable)

1. Made from the wood of the yew tree.

   Synonym: yewen

Translations

See also

• Taxus baccata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Pronoun

yew

1. Eye dialect spelling of you.

References

Anagrams

• Wey, Wye, wey, wye

Middle English

Pronoun

yew

1. Alternative form of yow

Noone

Noun

yew (plural yêw)

1. house

References

• R. Blench, Beboid Comparative

Zazaki

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *Haywas.

Numeral

yew

1. one