Ewe
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ewe¹
- /juː/
- /jʊ̯u/
- /ɪʊ̯/ Wales
- /joʊ̯/ Southern US, archaic
- /joː/ Ireland
Sounds like eau, u, hew, hue, Hugh (h-dropping), yew, you (not in Wales), yo (Ireland, archaic Southern US) · Rhymes with -uː
Where it comes from
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).
noun ewes
- A female sheep, as opposed to a ram. 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.
Ewe²
- /ˈeɪ.weɪ/
- /ˈeɪ.veɪ/
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Ewe Eʋe.
noun Ewes · Eve · Eʋe
- An ethnic group who inhabit southeastern Ghana, Togo, and Benin. Most Ewes are farmers or fishermen, although a growing number are urban dwellers living in Accra, Lomé, and other cities. The Ewes are a patrilineal people, with inheritance passing from father to son.
proper noun Eve · Eʋe
- The Niger-Congo language, belonging to the Gbe family, spoken by these people.
adjective Eve · Eʋe
- Of or pertaining to the Ewe people or language.
EWE³
noun EWEs
- Initialism of extreme wildfire event.extreme wildfire event
- Epilogue, What Epilogue?; a subgenre of Harry Potter fanfiction which pointedly ignores the epilogue of the final novel. A collective desire to explore some of the themes Rowling hadn't satisfactorily addressed helped fuel the development of hundreds of “Epilogue, What Epilogue?” (EWE) fanfics following the publication of Deathly Hallows.
