different between yowe vs sowe

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English yowe, yeue, forms of ewe, from Old English ?owu. Compare Scots cognate yowe.

Alternative forms

• yeo, yoe, yow

Noun

yowe (plural yowes)

1. (archaic, dialect, Britain, Scotland) A ewe; a female sheep.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

yowe

1. Obsolete form of you.

Anagrams

• yeow

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

yowe

1. Alternative form of ewe

Etymology 2

Pronoun

yowe

1. Alternative form of yow
   • 1440, Letter, in: 1841, Joseph Stevenson (editor), The Correspondence, Inventories, Account Rolls, and Law Proceedings of the Priory of Coldingham, page 116:

     Wirshipfull sir, I commend me to yowe; thankyng yowe of all tendirnesse and labour of lang time shewid to my brether and our cell of Coldyngham, prayand yowe of yowr goode continuance.

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English ewe, from Old English ?owu, from Proto-Germanic *awiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ówis (“sheep”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [j?u]

Noun

yowe (plural yowes)

1. ewe (female sheep)

Coordinate terms

• tuip (“ram”)

Derived terms

• fir-yowe (“fir cone”)
• great-yowe (“ewe in lamb”)
• yowie (diminutive)

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

yowe (ma class, plural mayowe)

1. shout (a loud burst of voice)

Yola

Noun

yowe

1. ewe; a female sheep

English

Verb

sowe

1. Obsolete spelling of sow

Anagrams

• owes, swoe, woes

Middle English

Alternative forms

• (Early ME) suhge, sue, suge, suhe, suwa
• soouwe, suwe, zo?e, sow, sew, soughe, sogh, sow?e

Etymology

From Old English s?gu, s?, from Proto-Germanic *sug?. Compare swine. Use as a term for a siege engine is from Medieval Latin s?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?su?(?)/

Noun

sowe (plural sowes or sowe)

1. A female pig (protruding long tooth)
2. A siege engine used to protect assailants.
3. (rare) A sowbug; a woodlouse.

Descendants

• English: sow
• Scots: sou

References

• “s?ue, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-22.