different between howe vs howl

English

Noun

howe (plural howes)

1. Alternative form of how (a tumulus, a bowl barrow).

Anagrams

• WeHo

Middle English

Alternative forms

• houwe

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman houe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?u?(?)/

Noun

howe (plural howes)

1. a mattock, pickax

Descendants

• English: hoe
• Yola: howe

References

• “houe, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English howe.

Noun

howe

1. hoe

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English howlen, houlen, from Old English *h?lian, from Proto-Germanic *h?wil?n?, *hiuwil?n? (“to howl”), from Proto-Indo-European *k?-, *kew- (“to howl, scream”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian huulje (“to howl”), Dutch huilen (“to howl”), Old French ouler,German Low German hulen (“to howl”), German heulen (“to howl”), Danish hyle (“to howl”),Swedish yla (“to scream, yell”), Northern Luri ?????? (??ir, “howl”)

Pronunciation

• enPR: houl, IPA^(key): /ha?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Noun

howl (plural howls)

1. The protracted, mournful cry of a dog, wolf or other canid; also of other animals.
2. Any similar sound.

3. A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.

Derived terms

• Irish howl

Translations

Verb

howl (third-person singular simple present howls, present participle howling, simple past and past participle howled)

1. To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.
   • 1627, Michael Drayton, The Moone Calfe

     And dogs in corners set them down to howl.
2. To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.
3. To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.
   • c. 1809 Walter Scott, The Poacher
4. To utter with outcry.

   to howl derision

Translations

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *s?wol (compare Welsh haul, Breton heol; compare also Irish súil (“eye”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh?wl?.

Noun

howl m (plural howlyow)

1. sun