Yowe vs Yode - What's the difference?
yowe | yode |
(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 ,
As a noun yowe
is (archaic|dialect|uk|scotland) a ewe; a female sheep.As a pronoun yowe
is (archaic).As a verb yode is
(go); went.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.