different between ower vs owre

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English owere, o?ere, awer, equivalent to owe +? -er.

Noun

ower (plural owers)

1. A person who owes something, especially money.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English ower, a variant of Middle English over. Compare Scots ower (“over”), English o'er (“over”). More at over.

Preposition

ower

1. (Tyneside) over

   Get ower thor noo!

Adverb

ower (not comparable)

1. (Tyneside) over

   She's ower canny hor, like

Adjective

ower (not comparable)

1. (Tyneside) overly, too

   Thats ower much that!

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4

Anagrams

• Rowe, WORE, owre, wore

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?v?/

Adverb

ower

1. Alternative form of awer

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

ower

1. Alternative form of houre

Etymology 2

Determiner

ower

1. (chiefly early) Alternative form of youre

References

• “your, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 May 2018.

Scots

Adverb

ower (not comparable)

1. (South Scots) over

   If ee gaun ower the hill ee'll sei eet.

   If he gone over the hill, he will see it.

Adjective

ower (not comparable)

1. (South Scots) too

   That's ower much for mei, like!

   That's too much for me, like!

Yola

Alternative forms

• oer

Etymology

From Middle English over, from Old English ofer, from Proto-West Germanic *obar.

Preposition

ower

1. over

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 1

Forms.

Noun

owre (plural owres)

1. Obsolete form of hour.
2. Obsolete form of oar.
3. Obsolete form of ore.
4. Obsolete form of our.

Etymology 2

From Middle English oure, from Old English ?r, from Proto-West Germanic *?r, from Proto-Germanic *?raz, *?rô. Perhaps a doublet of ure and urus.

Noun

owre (plural owres)

1. (obsolete) The aurochs.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

Related terms

• aurochs
• ure, urus (perhaps related)

Anagrams

• Rowe, WORE, ower, wore

Middle English

Determiner

owre

1. Alternative form of oure

Scots

Adverb

owre (comparative mair owre, superlative maist owre)

1. Over.