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yew
English
Wikispecies
Etymology 1
From Middle English ew, from Old English ?w, ?ow, from Proto-Germanic *?waz, *?hwaz (compare Icelandic ýr), masculine variant of *?w? (compare Dutch ijf, German Eibe), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eyHweh?.
See also Hittite [script needed] (eja, “type of evergreen”), Welsh yw (“yews”), Irish eo [both cognates of Old English ?w, Old English ?ow]; and Latgalian ?va (“bird cherry”), Lithuanian ievà (“bird cherry”), Russian ???? (íva, “willow”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: yo?o, IPA(key): /ju?/, /j???/
- Rhymes: -u?
- Homophones: ewe, u, you, hew (in h-dropping dialects), hue (in h-dropping dialects)
Noun
yew (countable and uncountable, plural yews)
- (countable) A species of coniferous tree, Taxus baccata, with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia.
- Synonyms: English yew, European yew, common yew
- (countable, by extension) Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus.
- Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus
- in family Podocarpaceae
- in family Cephalotaxaceae
- (uncountable) The wood of the such trees.
- A bow for archery, made of yew wood.
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
yew (not comparable)
- Made from the wood of the yew tree.
- Synonym: yewen
Translations
See also
- Taxus baccata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
Pronoun
yew
- Eye dialect spelling of you.
References
Anagrams
- Wey, Wye, wey, wye
Middle English
Pronoun
yew
- Alternative form of yow
Noone
Noun
yew (plural yêw)
- house
References
- R. Blench, Beboid Comparative
Zazaki
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Iranian *Haywas.
Numeral
yew
- one
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longbow
English
Etymology
long +? bow
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?l??b??/
Noun
longbow (plural longbows)
- A large bow that has a strong tension, and is usually more than 3 feet tall. The most famous longbows in history were the English longbows, which were crafted of yew.
Translations
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