ewe

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• /ˈeɪ.weɪ/
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• /ˈeɪ.veɪ/
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• /juː/
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• /jʊ̯u/
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• Wales: /ɪʊ̯/
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• Southern-US, archaic: /joʊ̯/
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• Ireland: /joː/
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• rhymes with -uː
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• homophone: eau
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• homophone: u
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• homophone: hew
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• homophone: hue
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• homophone: Hugh (h-dropping)
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• homophone: yew
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• homophone: you (not in Wales)
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• homophone: yo (Ireland, archaic Southern US)
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• CMU ARPABET: Y UW1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Ewe Eʋe.

From Middle English ewe, from Old English eowu, from Proto-West Germanic *awi, from Proto-Germanic *awiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h2ówis (“sheep”). Cognates See also Old English ēow (“sheep”), West Frisian ei, Dutch ooi, German Aue; also Old Irish oí, Latin ovis, Tocharian B ā(u)w, Lithuanian avi̇̀s (“ewe”), Russian овца́ (ovcá).

139 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 埃維人的 /埃维人的 (Āiwéirén de) — pertaining to the Ewe people or language
• Chinese Mandarin: 埃維語的 /埃维语的 (Āiwéiyǔ de) — pertaining to the Ewe people or language
• Dutch: Ewe- — pertaining to the Ewe people or language
• Finnish: ewe- — pertaining to the Ewe people or language
• Finnish: ewenkielinen — pertaining to the Ewe people or language
• Akan: Ayigbe — language
• Belarusian: эве (evje) — language
• Chinese Mandarin: 埃維語 /埃维语 (Āiwéiyǔ) — language
• Dutch: Ewe — language
• Ewe: Eʋe — language
• Ewe: Eʋegbe — language
• Finnish: ewe — language
• Irish: Éabhais — language
• Japanese: エウェ語 (Ewego) — language
• Macedonian: еве (eve) — language
• Russian: эве (eve) — language
• Swedish: ewe — language
• Tajik: эве (eve) — language
• Ukrainian: еве (eve) — language
• Afrikaans: skaapooi — female sheep
• Akan: odwan bedeɛ — female sheep
• Albanian: dele — female sheep
• Albanian: delme — female sheep
• Arabic: نَعْجَة (naʕja) — female sheep
• Arabic: نعجة (naʕga) — female sheep
• Armenian: մաքի (makʻi) — female sheep
• Aromanian: oai (roa-rup) — female sheep
• Asturian: oveya — female sheep
• Belarusian: аве́чка (avjéčka) — female sheep
• Breton: dañvadez — female sheep
• Bulgarian: овца́ (ovcá) — female sheep
• Burmese: သိုးမ (sui:ma.) — female sheep
• Catalan: ovella — female sheep
• Chechen: жий (žii) — female sheep
• Chinese Cantonese: 母羊 — female sheep
• Chinese: муён (muion) — female sheep
• Chinese Mandarin: 母羊 (mǔyáng) — female sheep
• Chinese Mandarin: 牂 (zāng) — female sheep
• Min Nan Chinese: 母羊 (bó-iûn) — female sheep
• Cornish: davas — female sheep
• Czech: ovce — female sheep
• Danish: moderfår — female sheep
• Danish: hunfår — female sheep
• Danish: gimmerlam — female sheep
• Dutch: ooi — female sheep
• Esperanto: ŝafino — female sheep
• Ewe: alẽnɔ — female sheep
• Faroese: ær — female sheep
• Finnish: uuhi — female sheep
• Finnish: lammas — female sheep
• French: brebis — female sheep
• Galician: ovella — female sheep
• Georgian: ცხვარი (cxvari) — female sheep
• German: Schaf — female sheep
• German: weibliches Schaf — female sheep
• German: Mutterschaf — female sheep
• German: Zibbe — female sheep
• German: Aue — female sheep
• German: Au — female sheep
• Greek: προβατίνα (provatína) — female sheep
• Greek: αρνάδα (arnáda) — female sheep
• Greek: αμνάδα (amnáda) — female sheep
• Ancient Greek: ἀμνάς (amnás) — female sheep
• Greenlandic: sava piaqqiortoq — female sheep
• Hebrew: רחל \ רָחֵל (rakhél) — female sheep
• Hindi: भेड़ (bheṛ) — female sheep
• Hungarian: anyajuh — female sheep
• Icelandic: ær — female sheep
• Ingrian: uto — female sheep
• Irish: caora — female sheep
• Irish: fóisc (yearling) — female sheep
• Irish: athchaora — female sheep
• Irish: athfhóisc — female sheep
• Italian: pecora — female sheep
• Japanese: 牝羊 (mehitsuji) — female sheep
• Japanese: 雌羊 (mehitsuji) — female sheep
• Kashmiri: گٔب (gạb) — female sheep
• Korean: 암양 (amyang) — female sheep
• Central Kurdish: مەڕ (merr) — female sheep
• Northern Kurdish: mî — female sheep
• Northern Kurdish: mîh — female sheep
• Southern Kurdish: میە (mye) — female sheep
• Ladino: oveja — female sheep
• Latin: ovis — female sheep
• Latvian: avs — female sheep
• Low German: Au — female sheep
• Macedonian: овца (ovca) — female sheep
• Māori: uwha hipi — female sheep
• Māori: kātua hipi — female sheep
• Navajo: dibétsaʼii — female sheep
• Norman: brébis — female sheep
• Norwegian Bokmål: søye — female sheep
• Norwegian Nynorsk: søye — female sheep
• Nǀuu: gǂaru — female sheep
• Church Slavic: овьца (ovĭca) — female sheep
• Church Slavic: ⱁⰲⱐⱌⰰ (ovĭca) — female sheep
• Old English: eowu — female sheep
• Persian: میش (miš) — female sheep
• Polish: owca — female sheep
• Portuguese: ovelha — female sheep
• Romani: bakri — female sheep
• Romanian: oaie — female sheep
• Romanian: oiță — female sheep
• Russian: овца́ (ovcá) — female sheep
• Russian: я́рка (járka) — female sheep
• Scots: yowe — female sheep
• Serbo-Croatian: о́вца — female sheep
• Serbo-Croatian: óvca — female sheep
• Slovak: ovca — female sheep
• Slovene: ovca — female sheep
• Somali: lax — female sheep
• Spanish: oveja — female sheep
• Spanish: oveja madre — female sheep
• Old Spanish: oueja — female sheep
• Sumerian: 𒁱 (DARA4) — female sheep
• Swedish: tacka — female sheep
• Tarifit: tixsi — female sheep
• Telugu: మేషి (mēṣi) — female sheep
• Telugu: ఆడగొర్రె (āḍagorre) — female sheep
• Tigrinya: ሽበን (šəbän) — female sheep
• Tocharian B: awi — female sheep
• Turkish: anaç koyun — female sheep
• Ugaritic: 𐎘𐎀𐎚 (ṯảt) — female sheep
• Ukrainian: вівця́ (vivcjá) — female sheep
• Uzbek: sovliq — female sheep
• Vietnamese: cừu cái — female sheep
• Volapük: jijip — female sheep
• Wolof: xar mu jigéen — female sheep
• Yiddish: שאָף (shof) — female sheep
• Yiddish: שעפּס (sheps) — female sheep
• Zazaki: miy — female sheep
• Zazaki: misna — female sheep
• Chinese Mandarin: 埃維族 /埃维族 (Āiwéizǔ) — ethnic group
• Chinese Mandarin: 埃維人 /埃维人 (Āiwéirén) — ethnic group
• Dutch: Ewe — ethnic group
• Ewe: Eʋeawo — ethnic group
• Ewe: Eʋegbetɔwo — ethnic group
• Finnish: ewet — ethnic group
• Japanese: エウェ人 (Ewejin) — ethnic group