gow

See also: Gow

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Gorowa.

Symbol

gow

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Gorowa.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Gorowa terms

English

Etymology 1

Noun

gow (plural gows)

1. Alternative spelling of jow (“a pre-metric unit of length in India”).

Etymology 2

From Chinese 膏 (gāo, “ointment”), probably as a shortening of 藥膏／药膏 (yàogāo).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡaʊ/
• Rhymes: -aʊ

Noun

gow (uncountable)

1. (colloquial, dated) Opium.

See also

etymologically unrelated terms containing the word "gow"

• har gow
• pai gow

Anagrams

• WOG, WoG, Wog, wog

Cornish

Etymology

From Old Cornish gou, from Proto-Celtic *gāwā. Cognate with Breton gaou and Welsh gau.

Noun

gow m (plural gowyow)

1. lie, untruth

Derived terms

• esedha war skavel an gow (“gossip”)
• gow diveth (“barefaced lie”)
• gowek (“liar, dishonest”)
• gowleverel (“lie”, verb)
• heb wow (“honestly”)
• leverel gow (“tell a lie”, verb)

Mutation

Mutation of gow

unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
gow	wow	unchanged	kow	hwow	wow

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.