different between yowe vs yote

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English yoten, yeten (“to pour”), from Old English ??otan (“to pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *geutan, from Proto-Germanic *geutan? (“to pour”), from Proto-Indo-European *??ewd- (“to pour”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian joote (“to pour”), West Frisian jitte (“to pour”), Dutch gieten (“to pour”), German gießen (“to pour”), Danish gyde (“to pour”). Related to gush, geyser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j??t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Verb

yote (third-person singular simple present yotes, present participle yoting, simple past and past participle yoted)

1. (Britain dialectal) To pour water on; pour in.
2. (archaic or dialectal) To steep.

   My fowls, which well enough / I, as before, found feeding at their trough / Their yoted wheat. — Chapman.

Related terms

• ingot

Etymology 2

From coyote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j??t/, /?j??ti/
• Rhymes: -??t, -??ti

Noun

yote (plural yotes)

1. Abbreviation of coyote.

Anagrams

• Toye, eyot, toey

Swahili

Adjective

yote

1. Mi class inflected form of -ote.
2. Ma class inflected form of -ote.
3. N class inflected form of -ote (singular only).