yowe

yowe (plural yowes)

1. (archaic, dialectal, Britain, 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.

yowe

1. Obsolete form of you.
   • 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.

• yeow

yowe

1. Alternative form of ewe

yowe

1. Alternative form of yow

• “you, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 May 2018.

From Middle English ewe, from Old English ēowu, from Proto-Germanic *awiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”).

• IPA^(key): [jʌu]

yowe (plural yowes)

1. ewe (female sheep)

• tuip (“ram”)

• fir-yowe (“fir cone”)
• great-yowe (“ewe in lamb”)
• yowie (diminutive)

yowe (ma class, plural mayowe)

1. shout (a loud burst of voice)