ewe
Translingual edit
Symbol edit
ewe
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English ewe, from Old English eowu, from Proto-West Germanic *awi, from Proto-Germanic *awiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /juː/, /jʊ̯u/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (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)
Noun edit
ewe (plural ewes)
- 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.
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Chuukese edit
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Article edit
ewe (plural ekkewe)
- the (singular)
Usage notes edit
When used with a possessive, the word used is we.
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ewe
- Ewe (member of a West African ethnic group)
- Ewe (language)
- Used also adjectivally with a hyphen or in genitive plural
- ewe-kulttuuri; ewejen kulttuuri
- Ewe culture
- ewe-kansa
- Ewe people
- ewejen kieli
- Ewe language
- ewe-kulttuuri; ewejen kulttuuri
- In plural (ewet), the Ewe (ethnic group)
Declension edit
Inflection of ewe (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | ewe | ewet | ||
genitive | ewen | ewejen | ||
partitive | eweä | ewejä | ||
illative | eween | eweihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | ewe | ewet | ||
accusative | nom. | ewe | ewet | |
gen. | ewen | |||
genitive | ewen | ewejen | ||
partitive | eweä | ewejä | ||
inessive | ewessä | eweissä | ||
elative | ewestä | eweistä | ||
illative | eween | eweihin | ||
adessive | ewellä | eweillä | ||
ablative | eweltä | eweiltä | ||
allative | ewelle | eweille | ||
essive | ewenä | eweinä | ||
translative | eweksi | eweiksi | ||
abessive | ewettä | eweittä | ||
instructive | — | ewein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Mam edit
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ewe
Maori edit
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ewe
Middle Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Old Dutch ēwa, from Proto-West Germanic *aiw.
Noun edit
êwe f
Inflection edit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
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Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “ewe”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “ewe”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old English eowu, from Proto-West Germanic *awi, from Proto-Germanic *awiz.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ewe (plural ewen)
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ Dobson, E. J. (1957) English pronunciation 1500-1700[1], volume II: Phonology, second edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1968, →OCLC, § 244, page 799.
- ^ Jordan, Richard (1974), Eugene Crook, transl., Handbook of the Middle English Grammar: Phonology (Janua Linguarum; 214)[2], The Hague: Mouton & Co. N.V., , § 108, page 127.
- ^ “eue, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-10.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
ewe
- Alternative form of ew
Middle High German edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old High German ēwa, akin to Old English ǣ.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
êwe f
Declension edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- Benecke, Georg Friedrich; Müller, Wilhelm; Zarncke, Friedrich (1863), “êwe”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
Old French edit
Etymology 1 edit
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Noun edit
ewe oblique singular, f (oblique plural ewes, nominative singular ewe, nominative plural ewes)
- 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.
- And when it [the Ark] was fully loaded
- 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
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Etymology 2 edit
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Noun edit
ewe oblique singular, f (oblique plural ewes, nominative singular ewe, nominative plural ewes)
- mare (adult female horse)
Pennsylvania German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German eben, from Old High German eban. Compare German eben, Dutch even, English even.
Adjective edit
ewe
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Ewe Eʋeawó (“Ewe people”).
Noun edit
ewe c
- Ewe (language)
Tocharian B edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
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.
Noun edit
ewe ?
Further reading edit
- 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
Xhosa edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
ewé
Yoruba edit
Etymology 1 edit
Cognate with Itsekiri ìwé, perhaps also related to Edo èbé, Urhobo ẹbe, see Doublet of ìwé
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Noun edit
ewé
- leaf, foliage
- The leaves of the plants Thaumatococcus daniellii and Megaphrynium macrostachyum, which are used in wrapping foods.
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Etymology 2 edit
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èwe
- adolescent, youth, young person
Derived terms edit
- ìgbà èwe (“childhood, adolescence”)
Etymology 3 edit
Alternative forms edit
- eè (Èkìtì)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ewè
- 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)
Zazaki edit
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ewe