yow

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English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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yow (plural yows)

  1. Alternative form of yowe

Etymology 2

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Interjection

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yow

  1. Expression of pain; ouch.
    Yow! I dropped it on my toe!
  2. Expression of humorous surprise or emphasis.
    You've been divorced four times? Yow!
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Anagrams

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Huave

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Noun

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yow

  1. water

Derived terms

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References

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  • Stairs Kreger, Glenn Albert, Scharfe de Stairs, Emily Florence, Olvaries Oviedo, Proceso, Ponce Villanueva, Tereso, Comonfort Llave, Lorenzo (1981) Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 24)‎[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 184–185

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old English ēow, from Proto-West Germanic *iwwiz, from Proto-Germanic *izwiz. Initial /j/ is by analogy with ye.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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yow (nominative ye)

  1. Second-person plural object pronoun: you (plural).
    • c. 1395, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Clerk's Tale", Canterbury Tales, Ellesmere manuscript (c. 1410):
      certes lord / so wel vs liketh yow / And al youre werk / and euere han doon / þat we / Ne koude nat vs self deuysen how / We myghte lyuen / in moore felicitee [...].
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  2. (formal) second-person singular object pronoun: you (singular).

Descendants

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  • English: you
  • Scots: you

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Scots

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Etymology

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Uncertain; most likely from Old English ēow.

Pronoun

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yow (personal, emphatic)

  1. (Southern Scots) you

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Whitesands

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Noun

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yow

  1. turtle

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Wolof

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)

Pronoun

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yow

  1. you (second-person singular subject pronoun)

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Yapese

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Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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yow

  1. Third-person dual pronoun; they two

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References

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  • Jensen, John Thayer (1977) Yapese Reference Grammar, Honolulu: The University press of Hawaii, pages 132-135