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Yowe vs Vowe - What's the difference?

yowe | 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is that yowe is a ewe; a female sheep while vowe is obsolete form of lang=en.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is obsolete form of lang=en.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)
  • (archaic, dialect, UK, Scotland) A ewe; a female sheep.
  • * 1902 , James Thomson, Recollections of a Speyside parish
    • The ram was marked wi' keel at the reet o' the tail an' the yowes upon their hips.

    Etymology 2

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • (archaic)
  • * 1440', Letter, '''1841 , Joseph Stevenson (editor), ''The Correspondence, Inventories, Account Rolls, and Law Proceedings of the Priory of Coldingham , 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)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1592, author=R.D., title=Hypnerotomachia, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And his discreete father, being safe according to his vowe , hanging vp his wings in the temple of Appollo . }}

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1504, author=Nicholas Udall, title=Roister Doister, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I vse to kisse all them that I loue to God I vowe . }}