different between yowie vs yowe

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Gamilaraay yuwi (“dream spirit”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: you'wi, IPA^(key): /?ja?wi/
• Rhymes: -a?i

Noun

yowie (plural yowies)

1. (Australia, cryptozoology) An ape-like monster or animal said to exist in parts of eastern Australia. [from 20th c.]
   • 1986, Bruce Pascoe, ‘The Slaughters of the Bulumwaal Butcher’, in Heiss & Minter (eds.), Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 101:

     The white population claimed that an escaped panther from a travelling circus was the culprit; others thought that a Yowie was responsible.

See also

• abominable snowman
• Bigfoot
• bunyip
• menk
• min min lights
• sasquatch
• yeti

Scots

Noun

yowie (plural yowies)

1. Diminutive of yowe (“ewe”)

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