-ow

• -yow

Cognate to Welsh -au, Breton -où.

• IPA^(key): [oʊ]

-ow

1. Pluralization suffix, roughly equivalent to -s

   ‎chi (“house”) + ‎-ow → ‎chiow (“houses”)

   ‎oy (“egg”) + ‎-ow → ‎oyow (“eggs”)

From native West Slavic languages, such as Polabian. Chiefly through Middle Low German; in originally High German areas the same Slavic suffix usually yields -au.

Compare Russian -ов (-ov), Polish -ów, Serbo-Croatian -ov, etc.

• IPA^(key): /o/

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-ow (not productive)

1. A place name suffix found in parts of former East Germany (or along the former border, as in Lüchow).
2. A surname suffix.

• Grabow
• Treptow

From Polish -ów and Russian -ов (-ov).

• IPA^(key): /ɔf/

-ow (not productive)

1. A surname suffix found in names borrowed from Polish or Russian.
2. Romanisation of Russian -ов (-ov) in place names.

• Gorbatschow
• Kalaschnikow

-ow

1. Dual subject pronoun marker.