ewe

See also: Ewe, EWE, -ewe, and éwé

Translingual

Symbol

ewe

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Ewe.

English
A ewe. (Female sheep)

Etymology

From Middle English ewe, from Old English eowu, from Proto-West Germanic *awi, from Proto-Germanic *awiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”).

Cognates
See also Old English ēow (“sheep”), West Frisian ei, Dutch ooi, German Aue); also Old Irish oí, Latin ovis, Tocharian B ā(ᵤ)w, Lithuanian avìs (“ewe”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /juː/, /juʊ̯/
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  • (Southern American English, archaic) IPA(key): /joʊ̯/
  • (Ireland) IPA(key): /joː/
  • Rhymes: -uː
  • Homophones: eau, u, yew, you (in almost all dialects)
  • Homophone: yo (Ireland, archaic Southern US)
  • Homophones: hew, hue, Hugh (in h-dropping dialects)

Noun

ewe (plural ewes)

  1. A female sheep, as opposed to a ram.
    Antonym: ram

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Anagrams

Chuukese

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /eweɪ/

Article

ewe (plural ekkewe)

  1. the (singular)

Usage notes

When used with a possessive, the word used is we.

Finnish

Etymology

From Ewe Eʋe.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈewe/, [ˈe̞we̞]
  • Rhymes: -ewe
  • Syllabification(key): e‧we

Noun

ewe

  1. Ewe (member of a West African ethnic group)
  2. Ewe (language)
  3. Used also adjectivally with a hyphen or in genitive plural
    ewe-kulttuuri; ewejen kulttuuri
    Ewe culture
    ewe-kansa
    Ewe people
    ewejen kieli
    Ewe language
  4. In plural (ewet), the Ewe (ethnic group)

Declension
Inflection of ewe (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative ewe ewet
genitive ewen ewejen
partitive eweä ewejä
illative eween eweihin
singular plural
nominative ewe ewet
accusative nom. ewe ewet
gen. ewen
genitive ewen ewejen
partitive eweä ewejä
inessive ewessä eweissä
elative ewestä eweistä
illative eween eweihin
adessive ewellä eweillä
ablative eweltä eweiltä
allative ewelle eweille
essive ewenä eweinä
translative eweksi eweiksi
instructive — ewein
abessive ewettä eweittä
comitative — eweineen
Possessive forms of ewe (type valo)
possessor singular plural
1st person eweni ewemme
2nd person ewesi ewenne
3rd person ewensä

Maori

Noun
  1. afterbirth

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch ēwa, from Proto-West Germanic *aiw.

Noun

êwe f

  1. era
  2. eternity
  3. moral law
  4. nature

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

Descendants
  • Dutch: eeuw
    • Afrikaans: eeu
  • Limburgish: ieuw

Further reading
  • “ewe”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “ewe”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English eowu, from Proto-West Germanic *awi, from Proto-Germanic *awiz.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɛu̯(ə)/, /ˈjɔu̯(ə)/[1][2]
  • Rhymes: -ɛu̯(ə)

Noun

ewe (plural ewen)

  1. ewe (female sheep)[3]
Descendants
References
  1. Dobson, E. J. (1957) English pronunciation 1500-1700‎, volume II: Phonology, second edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1968, OCLC 1300760, § 244, page 799.
  2. Jordan, Richard (1974),  Eugene Crook, transl., Handbook of the Middle English Grammar: Phonology (Janua Linguarum; 214)‎, The Hague: Mouton & Co. N.V., DOI:10.1515/9783110879414, § 108, page 127.
  3. “eue, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-10.

Noun

ewe

  1. Alternative form of ew

Middle High German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old High German ēwa, akin to Old English ǣ.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈeː.wə/

Noun

ēwe ?

  1. law
  2. eternity
  3. marriage

Descendants
  • Alemannic German: Ee, E-e
  • German: Ehe

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin aqua, from Proto-Italic *akʷā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water, flowing water”).

Noun

ewe f (oblique plural ewes, nominative singular ewe, nominative plural ewes)

  1. water
    • a. 1350, Holkham Bible:
      E caunt ele estoyt de tut chargé
      La ewe vint curant a grant plenté.
      And when it [the Ark] was fully loaded
      the waters ran high and fast.
    • c. 1170, Wace, Le Roman de Rou:
      L'ewe est bele e parfond qui en la cité cort
      The water which runs through the city is beautiful and deep
    • c. 1200, Marie de France, Guigemar:
      En bacins d'or ewe aporterent
      They brought water in basins made of gold

Descendants

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Middle High German eben, from Old High German eban. Compare German eben, Dutch even, English even.

Adjective

ewe

  1. even
  2. level

Swedish

Etymology

From Ewe Eʋeawó (“Ewe people”).

Noun

ewe c

  1. Ewe (language)

Tocharian B

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ewes- (“covering”), from *h₃ew- (“to put on clothes, shoes”). Cognate with Latin *uo (“to put on clothes”), Lithuanian auti (“to put on shoes”), etc.

Noun

ewe ?

  1. (anatomy) skin, hide
  2. leather

Further reading
  • Adams, Douglas Q. (2013), “ewe”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 103-104

Xhosa

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [eːwé]

Adverb

ewé

  1. yes

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Cognate with Edo èbé, Urhobo ẹbe

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ē.wé/

Noun

ewé

  1. leaf, foliage
  2. The leaves of the plants Thaumatococcus daniellii and Megaphrynium macrostachyum, which are used in wrapping foods.
    Synonyms: ẹẹ́rà, ewé eéran, ewé iran
Derived terms
  • eléwe
  • ewébẹ̀ (“herbs”)
  • ewédò (“water plant, moss”)
  • ewédú (“Corchorus olitorius shrub, also soup made from same plant”)
  • ewé-iná (“Mucuna sloanei shrub, known for irritant hairs”)
  • ewékewé (“"any leaf"”)
  • ewéko (“vegetable, plant”)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /è.wē/

Noun

èwe

  1. adolescent, youth, young person
Derived terms
  • ìgbà èwe (“childhood, adolescence”)

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ē.wè/

Noun

ewè

  1. A common species of edible fungi, Termitomyces robustus
    Ọmọ Ọbalùú kò gbọ́dọ̀ jẹ ewè ― The subjects of the King (of the town of Ẹ̀fọ̀n) must never eat the ewe mushroom (The people of Ẹ̀fọ̀n regard it as a taboo to eat this specific species of mushroom)

Zazaki

Noun

ewe ?

  1. and
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