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Etymology
Symbol
ewe
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English
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 avi̇̀s (“ewe”), Russian овца́ (ovcá).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /juː/, /jʊ̯u/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (Southern US, archaic) IPA(key): /joʊ̯/
- (Ireland) IPA(key): /joː/
- Rhymes: -uː
- Homophones: eau, u, yew, you; hew, hue, Hugh (h-dropping); yo (Ireland, archaic Southern US)
Noun
ewe (plural ewes)
- A female sheep, as opposed to a ram.
- Antonym: ram
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 31:38, column 2:
- This twentie yeeres haue I bene with thee: thy ewes and thy ſhee goates haue not caſt their yong, and the rammes of thy flocke haue I not eaten.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
female sheep
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Chuukese
Pronunciation
Article
ewe (plural ekkewe)
- the (singular)
Usage notes
When used with a possessive, the word used is we.
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
ewe
- Ewe (member of a West African ethnic group)
- ewe-kulttuuri / ewejen kulttuuri ― Ewe culture
- ewe-kansa ― Ewe people
- ewejen kieli ― Ewe language
- Ewe (language)
- (in the plural) the Ewe (ethnic group)
Declension
Derived terms
compounds
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Mam
Adverb
ewe
Maori
Noun
ewe
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch ēwa, from Proto-West Germanic *aiw.
Noun
êwe f or m
Inflection
Alternative forms
Descendants
Further reading
- “ewe”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “ewe”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
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Middle English
Middle High German
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Pennsylvania German
Swedish
Tocharian B
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