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English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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yow (pluralyows)

  1. Alternative form ofyowe.

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 humoroussurprise 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, pages184–185

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Englishēow,[1] fromProto-West Germanic*iwwiz, fromProto-Germanic*izwiz. Initial/j/ is by analogy withye.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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yow (nominativeye)

  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 likethyow / And al youre werk / and euere han doon / þat we / Ne koude nat vs self deuysen how / We myghte lyuen / in moore felicitee [...].
      (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
  2. (formal)second-person singular object pronoun:you(singular).

Descendants

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Middle English personal pronouns
nominativeaccusativedativegenitivepossessive
singular1st personI,ich,ikmemin
mi1		min
2nd personþouþeþin
þi1		þin
3rd personmhehim
hine2		himhishis
hisen
fsche,heohire
heo		hirehire
hires,hiren
nhithit
him2		his,hit—
dual31st personwitunkunker
2nd personȝitincinker
plural1st personweus,ousoureoure
oures,ouren
2nd person4yeyowyouryour
youres,youren
3rd personinh.hehem
he2		hemherehere
heres,heren
bor.þeiþem,þeimþeirþeir
þeires,þeiren
1 Used preconsonantally or beforeh.
2 Early 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.
4 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd person singular.

References

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  1. ^“you,pron.”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007, retrieved18 May 2018.

Scots

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Etymology

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Uncertain; most likely fromOld Englishēow.

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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Pronoun

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yow

  1. you(second-person singular subject pronoun)

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Wolof personal pronouns
singularplural
subjectobjectsubjectobject
1st personmanmanunnu
2nd personyowlayeenleen
3rd personmoomkoñoomleen

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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Yapese personal pronouns
singulardualplural
first
person		exclusivegaeggamowgamaed
inclusive—gadowgadaed
second personguurgimeewgimeed
third personqiiryowyaed
partitive—bagyowbagyaed
Partitive pronouns are used in expressions such asone of them two (dual) orone of them (plural).

References

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  • Jensen, John Thayer (1977),Yapese Reference Grammar, Honolulu: The University press of Hawaii, pages132-135
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