different between yowe vs yow

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

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