different between lowe vs sowe

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

Verb

sowe

1. Obsolete spelling of sow

Anagrams

• owes, swoe, woes

Middle English

Alternative forms

• (Early ME) suhge, sue, suge, suhe, suwa
• soouwe, suwe, zo?e, sow, sew, soughe, sogh, sow?e

Etymology

From Old English s?gu, s?, from Proto-Germanic *sug?. Compare swine. Use as a term for a siege engine is from Medieval Latin s?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?su?(?)/

Noun

sowe (plural sowes or sowe)

1. A female pig (protruding long tooth)
2. A siege engine used to protect assailants.
3. (rare) A sowbug; a woodlouse.

Descendants

• English: sow
• Scots: sou

References

• “s?ue, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-22.