different between rower vs rowen

English

Etymology

From Middle English rower, rowere, roware, equivalent to row +? -er. Cognate with Dutch roeier (“rower”), Danish roer (“rower”), Norwegian roer (“rower”). Compare also Old English r?wend (“rower”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????.?(?)/

Noun

rower (plural rowers)

1. One who rows.
   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Chapter VI

     It had been a sort of race hitherto, and the rowers, with set teeth and compressed lips, had pulled stroke for stroke.

2. A rowing machine.
   • 1988, Richard Allen Winett, Ageless athletes (page 65)

     Aerobic and weight training sessions should also complement each other. For example, on a day you work your upper body with weights, you can use a rower for aerobics.

Translations

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch rover, from Middle Dutch rôvere. Equivalent to roof +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r???.v?r/

Noun

rower (plural rowers, diminutive rowertjie)

1. robber, bandit

Polish

Etymology

From the name of the British company English Rover.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?.v?r/

Noun

rower m inan

1. bicycle, bike

Declension

Descendants

• ? Belarusian: ?????? (róvar)
• ? Ukrainian: ?????? (róver)
• ? Yiddish: ???????? (rover)

Further reading

• rower in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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”)