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yow

See also: Yow and -yow

English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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yow (plural yows)

  1. Alternative form of yowe

Etymology 2

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Interjection

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yow

  1. Expression of pain; ouch.
    Yow! I dropped it on my toe!
  2. Expression of humorous surprise or emphasis.
    You've been divorced four times? Yow!
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Anagrams

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Huave

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Noun

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yow

  1. water

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References

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  • Stairs Kreger, Glenn Albert, Scharfe de Stairs, Emily Florence, Olvaries Oviedo, Proceso, Ponce Villanueva, Tereso, Comonfort Llave, Lorenzo (1981) Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 24)‎[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 184–185

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old English ēow, from Proto-West Germanic *iwwiz, from Proto-Germanic *izwiz. Initial /j/ is by analogy with ye.

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Pronoun

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yow (nominative ye)

  1. Second-person plural object pronoun: you (plural).
    • c. 1395, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Clerk's Tale", Canterbury Tales, Ellesmere manuscript (c. 1410):
      certes lord / so wel vs liketh yow / And al youre werk / and euere han doon / þat we / Ne koude nat vs self deuysen how / We myghte lyuen / in moore felicitee [...].
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. (formal) second-person singular object pronoun: you (singular).

Descendants

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  • English: you
  • Scots: you

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Middle English personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative genitive possessive
singular 1st-person I, ich, ik me min
mi1		 min
2nd-person þou þe þin
þi1		 þin
3rd-person m he him
hine2		 him his his
hisen
f sche, heo hire
heo 		hire hire
hires, hiren
n hit hit
him2		 his, hit —
dual3 1st-person wit unk unker
2nd-person ȝit inc inker
plural 1st-person we us, ous oure oure
oures, ouren
2nd-person4 ye yow your your
youres, youren
3rd-person inh. he hem
he2		 hem here here
heres, heren
bor. þei þem, þeim þeir þeir
þeires, þeiren

1Used preconsonantally or before h.
2Early or dialectal.
3Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third-person dual forms in Middle English.
4Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

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Scots

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Etymology

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Uncertain; most likely from Old English ēow.

Pronoun

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yow (personal, emphatic)

  1. (Southern Scots) you

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Whitesands

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Noun

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yow

  1. turtle

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Wolof

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)

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yow

  1. you (second-person singular subject pronoun)

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Wolof personal pronouns
singular subject plural subject singular object plural object
1st person man nun ma nu
2nd person yow yeen la leen
3rd person moom ñoom ko leen

Yapese

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Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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yow

  1. Third-person dual pronoun; they two

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Yapese personal pronouns
Singular Dual Plural
First* inclusive gadow gadaed
exclusive gaeg gamow gamaed
Second guur gimeew gimeed
Third qiir yow yaed
Other expressions
Partitive** bagyow bagyaed
* The first person can be inclusive (I/we and you) or exclusive (I/we and not you). This differentiation is meaningful only in the dual and in the plural. ** Partitive pronouns are used in expressions such as one of them two (dual) or one of them (plural).

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  • Jensen, John Thayer (1977) Yapese Reference Grammar, Honolulu: The University press of Hawaii, pages 132-135
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