Yowe vs Vowe - What's the difference?
yowe | vowe |
(archaic, dialect, UK, Scotland) A ewe; a female sheep.
* 1902 , James Thomson, Recollections of a Speyside parish
(archaic)
* 1440', Letter, '''1841 , Joseph Stevenson (editor), ''The Correspondence, Inventories, Account Rolls, and Law Proceedings of the Priory of Coldingham ,
*{{quote-book, year=1592, author=R.D., title=Hypnerotomachia, chapter=, edition=
, passage=And his discreete father, being safe according to his vowe , hanging vp his wings in the temple of Appollo . }}
*{{quote-book, year=1504, author=Nicholas Udall, title=Roister Doister, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I vse to kisse all them that I loue to God I vowe . }}
As nouns the difference between yowe and vowe
is that yowe is a ewe; a female sheep while vowe is obsolete form of lang=en.As a pronoun yowe
is obsolete form of lang=en.As a verb vowe is
obsolete form of lang=en.yowe
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- The ram was marked wi' keel at the reet o' the tail an' the yowes upon their hips.
Etymology 2
Pronoun
(English Pronouns)page 116,
- Wirshipfull sir, I commend me to yowe'; thankyng '''yowe''' of all tendirnesse and labour of lang time shewid to my brether and our cell of Coldyngham, prayand ' yowe of yowr goode continuance.
vowe
English
Noun
(en noun)citation
Verb
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