fowe
Middle English edit
Noun edit
fowe
- Alternative form of fou
Yola edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English wou, how, from Old English hū, from Proto-West Germanic *hwō. The initial f- is by analogy with fan (“when”), farthoo (“why”), etc. Cognate with Scots foo (“how”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ɸuː/, /huː/
- Homophones: fho, howe
Adverb edit
fowe
- how
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 14, page 90:
- Jaane got leigheen; shoo pleast aam all, fowe?
- Joan set them a laughing, she pleased them all, how?
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 90