yow

See also: Yow and -yow

English

Noun

yow (plural yows)

  1. Alternative form of yowe

Interjection

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!
Synonyms

Anagrams

Huave

Noun

yow

  1. water

Derived terms
  • awiich yow
  • ayar yow
  • lamiyow
  • landeow yow
  • miyow
  • neyow
  • oniiüg yow
  • üüch yow

References
  • 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)‎ (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 184–185

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /juː/, /jiu̯/
  • (Early ME) IPA(key): /uː/, /iu̯/
  • (unstressed) IPA(key): /ju/

Pronoun

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 [...].
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. (formal) second-person singular object pronoun: you (singular).

Descendants
  • English: you
  • Scots: you

See also
Middle English personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative genitive possessive
singular 1st-person I, ich, ik memin
mi1		min
2nd-person þou þeþin
þi1		þin
3rd-person m hehim
hine2		himhishis
hisen
f sche, heohire
heo		 hirehire
hires, hiren
n hithit
him2		his, hit—
dual3 1st-person wit unk unker
2nd-person ȝit inc inker
plural 1st-person we us, ousoureoure
oures, ouren
2nd-person4 ye yowyouryour
youres, youren
3rd-person inh. hehem
he2		hemherehere
heres, heren
bor. þei þem, þeimþeirþeir
þeires, þeiren

1Used preconsonantally or before h.
2Early or dialectal.
3Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third-person dual forms in Middle English.
4Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

References

Scots

Etymology

Uncertain; most likely from Old English ēow.

Pronoun

yow (personal, emphatic)

  1. (South Scots) you

See also

Whitesands

Noun

yow

  1. turtle

References

Wolof

Pronunciation
  • Audio(file)

Pronoun

yow

  1. you (second-person singular subject pronoun)

See also
Wolof personal pronouns
singular subject plural subject singular object plural object
1st person man nun ma nu
2nd person yow yeen la leen
3rd person moom ñoom ko leen

Yapese

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jɔw/

Pronoun

yow

  1. Third-person dual pronoun; they two

See also
Yapese personal pronouns
Singular Dual Plural
First* inclusive gadow gadaed
exclusive gaeg gamow gamaed
Second guur gimeew gimeed
Third qiir yow yaed
Other expressions
Partitive** bagyow bagyaed
* The first person can be inclusive (I/we and you) or exclusive (I/we and not you). This differentiation is meaningful only in the dual and in the plural. ** Partitive pronouns are used in expressions such as one of them two (dual) or one of them (plural).

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