rowen

See also: Rowen

English

Alternative forms

• roughings, rowet, rowett, rowings

Etymology 1

Middle English rowein, from Anglo-Norman rewain, from an Old Northern French variant of Old French regain (“an increase”).

Noun

rowen (plural rowens)

1. A second crop of hay; aftermath.
2. A stubble field left unploughed until late in the autumn, so that it can be cropped by cattle.
   • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, →OCLC:

     For the wintering of cattle, about September you must turn them out that you design to keep up for a winter or a spring market, and your cows, that give milk into your rowens, till snow or a hard frost comes, and they will need no fodder.

Translations

Translations

• Bulgarian: отава (bg) f (otava)
• Finnish: äpäre (fi)
• Italian: guaime m
• Ottoman Turkish: بوزاغیلق (buzağılık)

Etymology 2

Noun

rowen (countable and uncountable, plural rowens)

1. (Scotland) dated form of roving (“an elongate bundle of fiber”).

Anagrams

• owner, rewon, worne

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English rōwan, from Proto-Germanic *rōaną.

Alternative forms

• rowe, rouwen, rowyn, reowen

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔu̯ən/

Verb

rowen

2. To row; paddle (use oars to power a seaborne vehicle)
3. To move by rowing or paddling (to move by using oars to power a seaborne vehicle)
4. To move in the water; to paddle or splash.
5. To go, travel, journey or voyage

Conjugation

Conjugation of rowen (strong class 7 or weak in -ed)

infinitive	(to) rowen, rowe
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	rowe	rew, rowed
2nd-person singular	rowest	rewe, rew, rowedest
3rd-person singular	roweth	rew, rowed
subjunctive singular	rowe	rewe1, rowed1
imperative singular		—
plural2	rowen, rowe	rewen, rewe, roweden, rowede
imperative plural	roweth, rowe	—
participles	rowynge, rowende	rowen, rowe, rowed

¹Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English.
²Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Related terms

• rother

Descendants

• English: row
• Scots: row

References

• “rouen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-8.

Etymology 2

From rewe (“row”) +‎ -en (infinitival suffix).

Alternative forms

• rowe, rewen, rewe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔu̯ən/, /ˈrɛu̯ən/

Verb

rowen

2. To shine; to emit light.

Conjugation

Conjugation of rowen (weak in -ed)

infinitive	(to) rowen, rowe
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	rowe	rowed
2nd-person singular	rowest	rowedest
3rd-person singular	roweth	rowed
subjunctive singular	rowe
imperative singular		—
plural1	rowen, rowe	roweden, rowede
imperative plural	roweth, rowe	—
participles	rowynge, rowende	rowed, yrowed

¹Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

References

• “reuen, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-8.

Etymology 3

Verb

rowen

1. Alternative form of rewen (“to regret”)