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Ewe
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- 1 Of or pertaining to the Ewe people or language. not-comparable
- 1 The Niger-Congo language, belonging to the Gbe family, spoken by these people.
- 1 A female sheep, as opposed to a ram.
"This twentie yeeres haue I bene with thee: thy ewes and thy ſhee goates haue not caſt their yong, and the rammes of thy flocke haue I not eaten."
- 2 An ethnic group who inhabit southeastern Ghana, Togo, and Benin. plural, singular
"Most Ewes are farmers or fishermen, although a growing number are urban dwellers living in Accra, Lomé, and other cities. The Ewes are a patrilineal people, with inheritance passing from father to son."
- 3 Initialism of extreme wildfire event. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 4 female sheep wordnet
- 5 Epilogue, What Epilogue?; a subgenre of Harry Potter fanfiction which pointedly ignores the epilogue of the final novel. Harry-Potter, countable, slang, uncountable
"A collective desire to explore some of the themes Rowling hadn't satisfactorily addressed helped fuel the development of hundreds of “Epilogue, What Epilogue?” (EWE) fanfics following the publication of Deathly Hallows."
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- 6 a Kwa language spoken by the Ewe in Ghana and Togo and Benin wordnet
- 7 a member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana wordnet
Etymology
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).
From Ewe Eʋe.
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From Ewe Eʋe.
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