different between lowe vs lown

English

Noun

lowe (plural lowes)

1. Alternative form of low ("flame").

Anagrams

• Loew, owel, wole

Lindu

Noun

lowe

1. eagle

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English lowe, loghe, from Old Norse logi (“fire, flame, sword”), from Proto-Germanic *lugô (“flame, blaze”).

Noun

lowe (plural lowes)

1. flame

   Is my brain no het aneugh, but ye maun set lowe to it, and burn it? (Alexander Leighton, ‘The House in Bell's Wynd’, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland)

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English run away.

Verb

lowe

1. to flee, to run away, to escape

Derived terms

• lowe nengre

English

Etymology 1

From Old Norse logn, lygn, from Proto-Germanic *lugnijaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright”), referring to shining water. Germanic cognates include Icelandic lón, Danish lyn (“lightning”), Swedish lugn (“calm water”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la?n/
• (Scottish) IPA^(key): /l?un/

Noun

lown (plural lowns)

1. (Scotland) Calm, tranquillity. [from 13th c.]
2. A shelter; a calm or peaceful place. [from 17th c.]
   • 1958, Michael Harrington, Sea Stories from Newfoundland:

     He had no alternative to the slim chance of safety offered by the ‘lun’ of Cat Harbour, Northern Island.

Adjective

lown (comparative lowner, superlative lownest)

1. (chiefly Scotland) Peaceful, calm. [from 15th c.]
   • 1826, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, April:

     Ye may hear him, on a lown day, at every farm-house in the parish.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:lown.

References

• lown in Merriam-Webster's online dictionary
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1923

Etymology 2

See loon.

Noun

lown (plural lowns)

1. (obsolete) A low fellow.