different between rowen vs growen

English

Alternative forms

• roughings
• rowet, rowett
• rowings

Etymology

Compare rough.

Noun

rowen (plural rowens)

1. A second crop of hay; aftermath.
2. A stubble field left unploughed until late in the autumn, so that it can be cropped by cattle.

   • For the wintering of cattle, about September you must turn them out that you design to keep up for a winter or a spring market, and your cows, that give milk into your rowens, till snow or a hard frost comes, and they will need no fodder.

Translations

Anagrams

• owner, rewon, worne

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English r?wan, from Proto-Germanic *r?an?.

Alternative forms

• rowe, rouwen, rowyn, reowen

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?u??n/

Verb

rowen

1. To row; paddle (use oars to power a seaborne vehicle)
2. To move by rowing or paddling (to move by using oars to power a seaborne vehicle)
3. To move in the water; to paddle or splash.
4. To go, travel, journey or voyage

Conjugation

Related terms

• rother

Descendants

• English: row
• Scots: row

References

• “rouen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-8.

Etymology 2

From rewe (“row”) +? -en.

Alternative forms

• rowe, rewen, rewe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?u??n/, /?r?u??n/

Verb

rowen

1. To shine; to emit light.

Conjugation

References

• “reuen, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-8.

Etymology 3

Verb

rowen

1. Alternative form of rewen (“to regret”)

English

Verb

growen

1. (obsolete) past participle of grow

Anagrams

• grew on, growne, wonger, wronge

Middle English

Alternative forms

• growe, grow, groue, grewe

Etymology

From Old English gr?wan, from Proto-West Germanic *gr?an.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r?u??n/

Verb

growen

2. To grow (usually of plants, fruit, etc.):
   1. To spring up; grow from nothing.
   2. (often of people) to grow up; to mature
   3. To come into existence; to arise.
3. To increase; to magnify:
   1. To increase in amount; to multiply
   2. To increasingly take on an attribute.
   3. To become stronger or more powerful.
   4. (of plants) To thrive; to flourish.
4. To become older; to age.
5. (finance) To go or pass (to, of money)
6. To exist; to be present (somewhere)

Usage notes

• Weak forms are sometimes found, as in dialectal Modern English.
• The causative sense ("cause to grow, make grow") so common in Modern English grow is almost nonexistent in growen.

Conjugation

Descendants

• English: grow
• Scots: grow

References

• “grouen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.