lowe
English
Noun
lowe (plural lowes)
- Alternative form of low ("flame").
- 1786, Robert Burns, The Vision:
- An' by my ingle-lowe I saw, / Now bleezin' bright,
- 1884, Richard Francis Burton, The lyricks [of] Camoens, translation of original by Luís de Camões, page 78:
- Love is a living Lowe that lurking burneth.
Lindu
Middle English
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English lowe, loghe, from Old Norse logi (“fire, flame, sword”), from Proto-Germanic *lugô (“flame, blaze”).
Noun
lowe (plural lowes)
- flame
- Is my brain no het aneugh, but ye maun set lowe to it, and burn it? (Alexander Leighton, ‘The House in Bell's Wynd’, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland)
- 1786, Robert Burns, The Vision:
- An' by my ingle-lowe I saw, / Now bleezin' bright,
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Sranan Tongo
Derived terms
- lowe nengre
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