different between yow vs jow

English

Etymology 1

Noun

yow (plural yows)

1. Alternative form of yowe

Etymology 2

Interjection

yow

1. Expression of pain; ouch.

   Yow! I dropped it on my toe!

2. Expression of humorous surprise or emphasis.

   You've been divorced four times? Yow!

Synonyms

• ouch, youch

Anagrams

• Wyo.

Huave

Noun

yow

1. water

Derived terms

References

• Stairs Kreger, Glenn Albert; Scharfe de Stairs, Emily Florence; Olvaries Oviedo, Proceso; Ponce Villanueva, Tereso; Comonfort Llave, Lorenzo (1981) Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 24)?^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 184–185

Middle English

Alternative forms

• yowe, you, youe, yo, yoe, yogh, yaw, yew, yhu, yu, yw, yhow, ?ou, ?ow, ?ou?, ?ow?, ?o, ?owe, ?u, ?w, ?ue, ?iow, ?eu, ?ew, ?ewe, ?aw, ?how, ?howe, ?iu, ?eow, ?ehw, ?uw, gow, gu, giu, geu, geau, eou, eow, eo, eowe, eu, euw?, ou, ow, æu, owe, hou, heou, heu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ju?/, /jiu?/
• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /u?/, /iu?/
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /ju/

Etymology

From Old English ?ow, from Proto-West Germanic *iwwiz, from Proto-Germanic *izwiz. Initial /j/ is by analogy with ye.

Pronoun

yow (nominative ye)

1. Second-person plural object pronoun: you (plural).
2. (formal) second-person singular object pronoun: you (singular).

Descendants

• English: you
• Scots: you

See also

References

• “you, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 May 2018.

Scots

Etymology

Uncertain; most likely from Old English ?ow.

Pronoun

yow (personal, emphatic)

1. (South Scots) you

See also

• ee

Whitesands

Noun

yow

1. turtle

References

• Jeremy Hammond, The Grammar of Nouns and Verbs in Whitesands, an Oceanic Language of Southern Vanuatu (2009), p. 81

Wolof

Pronunciation

Pronoun

yow

1. you (second-person singular subject pronoun)

See also

Yapese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?w/

Pronoun

yow

1. Third-person dual pronoun; they two

See also

References

• Jensen, John Thayer (1977) Yapese Reference Grammar, Honolulu: The University press of Hawaii, pages 132-135

English

Noun

jow (plural jows)

1. (historical) A pre-metric unit of length in India, equal to approximately a quarter of an inch

Middle English

Noun

jow

1. Alternative form of Jew

Scots

Verb

jow (third-person singular present jows, present participle jowin, past jowt, past participle jowt)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To ring or toll (a bell).

Noun

jow (plural jows)

1. A stroke of a bell.