different between sheep vs methera

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sh?p, IPA^(key): /?i?p/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ip/
• Rhymes: -i?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English sheep, scheep, schep, schepe, from Old English s??ap, from Proto-West Germanic *sk?p, from Proto-Germanic *sk?p? (compare West Frisian skiep, North Frisian schäip, Dutch schaap, German Schaf), beside *keppô (compare Old Norse kjappi (“buck”), dialectal German Kippe (“newborn calf”)), of unknown origin. Perhaps from the same Scythian word (compare Ossetian ??? (cæw, “goat”), Persian ???? (?apiš, “yearling goat”)) which was borrowed into Albanian as cjap, sqap (“buck”) and into Slavic (compare Polish cap). After Kroonen, *sk?p? is instead from the root of Proto-Germanic *skaban? (“to scratch”) via Kluge's law.

Alternative forms

• shoop (slang, chiefly humorous)
• sheeps (plural, nonstandard or obsolete, often humorous)
• sheepe (obsolete)

Noun

sheep (countable and uncountable, plural sheep)

1. (countable) A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.
2. (countable) A timid, shy person who is easily led by others.
3. (countable, chiefly Christianity, chiefly plural) A religious adherent, a member of a congregation or religious community (compare flock).
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4. (uncountable) Sheepskin leather.
5. (countable, speech recognition) A person who is easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with goat.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:sheep

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: sipsip (reduplication)
  • ? Rotokas: sipisipi
• ? Abenaki: azib (from "a sheep")
• ? Chuukese: siip
• ? Coeur d'Alene: sip
• ? Quiripi: sheeps

Translations

See also

Further reading

• sheep on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• sheep on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ovis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Etymology 2

Noun

sheep

1. (chiefly humorous) plural of shoop

References

Anagrams

• Ephes., HEPES, heeps, shepe

Middle English

Alternative forms

• scheep, schep, schepe

Etymology

From Old English sc?ap, from Proto-Germanic *sk?p? beside *keppô, of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?p/, /???p/

Noun

sheep (plural sheep)

1. sheep

Descendants

• English: sheep, shoop
  • Tok Pisin: sipsip (reduplication)
    • ? Rotokas: sipisipi
  • ? Abenaki: azib (from "a sheep")
  • ? Chuukese: siip
  • ? Coeur d'Alene: sip
  • ? Quiripi: sheeps
• Scots: sheep
• Yola: zheep

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English sheep, scheep, schep, schepe, from Old English sc?ap, from Proto-Germanic *sk?p?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ip]

Noun

sheep (plural sheeps)

1. sheep (woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis)

Alternative forms

• schepe, scheep, scheip, schip, schap

English

Alternative forms

• mether (Teesdale, Swaledale, Yorkshire Dales)

Etymology

From Brythonic numerals. Compare to Welsh mhedwerydd, nasal mutation of pedwerydd.

Numeral

methera

1. (Cumbria) four in sheep counting of Northern England.

Derived terms

See also

• (Borrowdale sheep counting) yan, tyan, tethera, methera, pimp, sethera, lethera, hovera, dovera, dick, yan-a-dick, tyan-a-dick, tethera-a-dick, methera-a-dick, bumfit, yan-a-bumfit, tyan-a-bumfit, tethera-a-bumfit, methera-bumfit, giggot

References

• Wright, Peter (1995) Cumbrian Chat, Dalesman Publishing Company, ?ISBN, page 7
• Deakin, Michael A.B. (2007) , Leigh-Lancaster, David, editor, The Name of the Number?^[1], Australian Council for Educational Research, ?ISBN, retrieved 2008-05-17, page 75
• Varvogli, Aliki (2002) Annie Proulx's The Shipping News: A Reader's Guide?^[2], Continuum International Publishing Group, ?ISBN, retrieved 2008-05-17, pages 24-25

Anagrams

• erathem, mathree, meather, thermae