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row

See also: Row and rów

EnglishEdit

 
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Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English rewe, rowe, rawe, from Old English rǣw, rāw, probably from Proto-Germanic *raiwō, *raigwō, *raih- (“row, streak, line”), from Proto-Indo-European *reyk- (“to carve, scratch, etch”).

Cognate with dialectal Norwegian rå (“boundary line”), Middle Dutch rīe, Dutch rij (“row, line”), Old High German rīga (“line”), rihan (“to string”), Middle High German rige (“line, row, ditch”), rīhe (“row, line, corridor”), German Reihe (“row”), Middle Low German rēge, rīge, Old Norse rega (“string”), Middle Dutch rīghe, Dutch rijg, rijge, German Riege (“sports team”).

Alternative formsEdit

  • rew (dialectal)

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

row (plural rows)

  1. A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc.
  2. A horizontal line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.
    Antonym: column
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Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English rowen (“to row”), from Old English rōwan (“to row”), from Proto-Germanic *rōaną (“to row”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”). Compare West Frisian roeie, Dutch roeien, Danish ro. More at rudder.

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

row (third-person singular simple present rows, present participle rowing, simple past and past participle rowed)

 
A boy rowing a boat in Uganda (1)
  1. (transitive or intransitive, nautical) To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.
    Synonym: paddle
  2. (transitive) To transport in a boat propelled with oars.
    to row the captain ashore in his barge
  3. (intransitive) To be moved by oars.
    The boat rows easily.
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NounEdit

row (plural rows)

  1. An act or instance of rowing.
    I went for an early-morning row.
  2. (weightlifting) An exercise performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.
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Etymology 3Edit

Unclear; some suggest it is a back-formation from rouse, verb.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

row (plural rows)

  1. A noisy argument.
    There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
    • 1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:
      As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess‎[1]:
      ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?
    • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar:
      […] he wrote to me last week telling me about an incredible bitch of a row blazing there on account of someone having been and gone and produced an unofficial magazine called Raddled, full of obscene libellous Oz-like filth. And what I though, what Sammy and I thought, was—why not?
    Synonyms: argument, disturbance, fight, fracas, quarrel, shouting match, slanging match
  2. A continual loud noise.
    Who's making that row?
    Synonyms: din, racket
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VerbEdit

row (third-person singular simple present rows, present participle rowing, simple past and past participle rowed)

  1. (intransitive) To argue noisily.
    Synonyms: argue, fight
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Lower SorbianEdit

 
row

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *rovъ. Cognate with Upper Sorbian row, Polish rów (“ditch”), Czech rov, Russian ров (rov, “ditch”), Old Church Slavonic ровъ (rovŭ, “ditch”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

row m (diminutive rowk)

  1. grave

DeclensionEdit

Declension of row
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative row rowa rowy
Genitive rowa rowowu rowow
Dative rowoju rowoma rowam
Accusative row rowa rowy
Instrumental rowom rowoma rowami
Locative rowje rowoma rowach

Further readingEdit

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “row”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999), “row”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

ManxEdit

EtymologyEdit

From an old perfective particle ro- + va.

VerbEdit

row

  1. was, were (dependent form)
    Cha row aggle erbee er.
    He was not in the least afraid.
    Dooyrt eh dy row eh mac y ree.
    He claimed that he was the son of the king.

Usage notesEdit

Part of the substantive verb bee. This is the dependent form of the past tense va used after negative and interrogative particles:

Old EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-West Germanic *rōu, from Proto-Germanic *rōwō. Cognate with Old Norse ró (“rest”) and German Ruhe (“quietness, rest, repose”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

rōw f

  1. quiet, rest, calm

DeclensionEdit

Declension of row (strong ō-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative rōw rōwa, rōwe
accusative rōwe rōwa, rōwe
genitive rōwe rōwa
dative rōwe rōwum

DescendantsEdit

  • Middle English: ro, rou, rowe, roo

ReferencesEdit

ScotsEdit

NounEdit

row (plural rows)

  1. roll

Derived termsEdit

Upper SorbianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *rovъ.

NounEdit

row m

  1. grave

Further readingEdit

  • “row” in Soblex

VilamovianEdit

 
row (1)
 
row (2)

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NounEdit

rōw f (plural rowa)

  1. rook (bird)
  2. raven
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