yow

yow (plural yows)

1. Alternative form of yowe.

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!

• ouch, youch

• Wyo.

yow

1. water

• 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, pages 184–185

• yowe, you, youe, yo, yoe, yogh, yaw, yew, yhu, yu, yw, yhow, ȝou, ȝow, ȝouȝ, ȝowȝ, ȝo, ȝowe, ȝu, ȝw, ȝue, ȝiow, ȝeu, ȝew, ȝewe, ȝaw, ȝhow, ȝhowe, ȝiu, ȝeow, ȝehw, ȝuw, gow, gu, giu, geu, geau, eou, eow, eo, eowe, eu, euwȝ, ou, ow, æu, owe, hou, heou, heu

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

• IPA^(key): /juː/, /jiu̯/
• (Early Middle English) IPA^(key): /uː/, /iu̯/
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /ju/

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 [...].

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2. (formal) second-person singular object pronoun: you (singular).

• English: you
• Scots: you

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

Uncertain; most likely from Old English ēow.

yow (personal, emphatic)

1. (Southern Scots) you

• ee

yow

1. turtle

• Jeremy Hammond, The Grammar of Nouns and Verbs in Whitesands, an Oceanic Language of Southern Vanuatu (2009), p. 81

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yow

1. you (second-person singular subject pronoun)

• IPA^(key): /jɔw/

yow

1. Third-person dual pronoun; they two