different between fower vs vower

English

Etymology 1

From fow.

Noun

fower (plural fowers)

1. (Early Modern English, obsolete) One who cleans (fows), as in cooking utensils or house maintenance.

Etymology 2

Middle English four, fower, from Old English f?ower. In the NATO phonetic alphabet, the two-syllable pronunciation avoids confusion with other digits.

Numeral

fower

1. (Tyneside) four

Noun

fower (uncountable)

1. The digit 4 in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

Middle English

Numeral

fower

1. Alternative form of four

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English fower, from Old English fe?wer, from Proto-Germanic *fedw?r, from Proto-Indo-European *k?etwóres.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [f?ur], [?f?u?r]
• (Southwestern Scotland) IPA^(key): [fuwr]

Numeral

fower

1. four

Derived terms

• fowert (“fourth”)

References

• Scots-English Dictionary on Scots Wikipedia

English

Etymology

vow +? -er

Noun

vower (plural vowers)

1. One who makes a vow.

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Anagrams

• revow

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Etymology

From Middle English four, from Old English f?ower, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar. Cognates include English four and Scots fower.

Numeral

vower

1. four

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN