sowere
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old English sāwere; equivalent to sowen (“to sow”) + -er.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsowere (plural soweres)
- One who sows or spreads seed.
- (figurative) One who engenders or disseminates.
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “souē̆r(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Yola
editNoun
editsowere
- Alternative form of zoweare
- 1927, “LAMENT OF A WIDOW”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 130, line 7:
- Mee gude sowere,
- My good sower,
References
edit- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 130