ewe

ewe

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Ewe.

From Middle English ewe, from Old English eowu, from Proto-West Germanic *awi, from Proto-Germanic *awiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”).

• IPA^(key): /juː/, /jʊ̯u/

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• (Southern American English, archaic) IPA^(key): /joʊ̯/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /joː/
• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophones: eau, u, yew, you (in almost all dialects)
• Homophone: yo (Ireland, archaic Southern US)
• Homophones: hew, hue, Hugh (in h-dropping dialects)

ewe (plural ewes)

1. A female sheep, as opposed to a ram.

   Antonym: ram

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 31:38, column 2:

     This twentie yeeres haue I bene with thee: thy ewes and thy ſhee goates haue not caſt their yong, and the rammes of thy flocke haue I not eaten.

• yowe, yeo, yoe, yow (archaic, dialectal, Britain, Scotland)

• hog
• ram
• shearling
• teg
• wether

• eew, wee

• IPA^(key): /eweɪ/

ewe (plural ekkewe)

1. the (singular)

When used with a possessive, the word used is we.

From Ewe Eʋe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈewe/, [ˈe̞we̞]
• Rhymes: -ewe
• Syllabification^(key): e‧we

ewe

1. Ewe (member of a West African ethnic group)

   ewe-kulttuuri / ewejen kulttuuri ― Ewe culture

   ewe-kansa ― Ewe people

   ewejen kieli ― Ewe language

2. Ewe (language)
3. (in the plural) the Ewe (ethnic group)

ewe

1. yesterday

ewe

1. afterbirth
2. womb

From Old Dutch ēwa, from Proto-West Germanic *aiw.

êwe f

1. era
2. eternity
3. moral law
4. nature

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• êeu

• Dutch: eeuw
  • Afrikaans: eeu
• Limburgish: ieuw

• “ewe”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “ewe”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Inherited from Old English eowu, from Proto-West Germanic *awi, from Proto-Germanic *awiz.

• awe, eu, ouwe, yeue, yowe

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛu̯(ə)/, /ˈjɔu̯(ə)/[1][2]
• Rhymes: -ɛu̯(ə)

ewe (plural ewen)

1. ewe (female sheep)[3]

• English: ewe
• Scots: yowe, yhow
• Yola: yowe

ewe

1. Alternative form of ew

• ê

From Old High German ēwa, akin to Old English ǣ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː.wə/

êwe f

1. law
2. eternity
3. marriage

• Alemannic German: Ee, E-e
• German: Ehe

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “êwe”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke‎, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

From Latin aqua (“water”).

• iaue, egua, euwe

ewe oblique singular, f (oblique plural ewes, nominative singular ewe, nominative plural ewes)

1. Alternative form of iaue (“water”)
   • a. 1350, Holkham Bible:

     E caunt ele estoyt de tut chargé
     La ewe vint curant a grant plenté.

     And when it [the Ark] was fully loaded
     the waters ran high and fast.

   • c. 1170, Wace, Le Roman de Rou:

     L'ewe est bele e parfond qui en la cité cort

     The water which runs through the city is beautiful and deep

   • c. 1200, Marie de France, Guigemar:

     En bacins d'or ewe aporterent

     They brought water in basins made of gold

• ewer
• sewiere

From Latin equa

• ive, iewe

ewe oblique singular, f (oblique plural ewes, nominative singular ewe, nominative plural ewes)

1. mare (adult female horse)

From Middle High German eben, from Old High German eban. Compare German eben, Dutch even, English even.

ewe

1. even
2. level

From Ewe Eʋeawó (“Ewe people”).

ewe c

1. Ewe (language)

• iwe

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ewes- (“covering”), from *h₃ew- (“to put on clothes, shoes”). Cognate with Latin *uo (“to put on clothes”), Lithuanian auti (“to put on shoes”), etc.

ewe ?

1. (anatomy) skin, hide
2. leather

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “ewe”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 103-104

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [eːwé]

ewé

1. yes

Cognate with Itsekiri ìwé, perhaps also related to Edo èbé, Urhobo ẹbe, see Doublet of ìwé

• IPA^(key): /ē.wé/

ewé

1. leaf, foliage
2. The leaves of the plants Thaumatococcus daniellii and Megaphrynium macrostachyum, which are used in wrapping foods.

   Synonyms: ẹẹ́rà, ewé eéran, ewé iran

• IPA^(key): /è.wē/

èwe

1. adolescent, youth, young person

• ìgbà èwe (“childhood, adolescence”)

• eè (Èkìtì)

• IPA^(key): /ē.wè/

ewè

1. A common species of edible fungi, Termitomyces robustus

   Ọmọ Ọbalùú kò gbọ́dọ̀ jẹ ewè ― The subjects of the King (of the town of Ẹ̀fọ̀n) must never eat the ewe mushroom (The people of Ẹ̀fọ̀n regard it as a taboo to eat this specific species of mushroom)

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