Etymology

yowe

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Today it means: A ewe; a female sheep. Full definition →

Middle English yowe ← Old English eowu
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromeowu
  2. Middle English · inherited fromyowe
  3. English todayyowe

From Middle English yowe, yeue, variant forms of ewe, from Old English eowu. Compare doublet ewe and Scots yowe.

Words from the same roots

Old Englisheowu all →

ewe

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.