yow

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, West Midlands): enPR: thou, IPA(key): /ðaʊ/ === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== yow (plural yows) Alternative form of yowe. === Etymology 2 === ==== Interjection ==== yow Expression of pain; ouch. Expression of humorous surprise or emphasis. ===== Synonyms ===== ouch, youch === Etymology 3 === ==== Pronoun ==== yow (West Midlands) Alternative form of you. === Anagrams === Wyo. == Huave == === Noun === yow water ==== Derived terms ==== === References === 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)‎[4] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 184–185 == Middle English == === Alternative forms === gow, ȝeu, ȝew, ȝou, ȝow, ȝouȝ, ȝo, yaw, yew, you, yw æu, eo, eou, eow, eowe, eu, euwȝ, geau, geu, giu, ȝehw, ȝeow, ȝiu, heou, heu (Early Middle English); ȝuw (Ormulum) ȝaw, ȝewe, ȝiow, ȝowe, ȝw, yo, yoe, youe, yowe (Late Middle English) gu, ȝu (East Anglia); ȝhow, ȝhowe, ȝue, yhow, yu (chiefly Northern); ȝowȝ, yogh (Southern); hou, ou, ow, owe (chiefly West Midland) === Etymology === From Old English ēow, from Proto-West Germanic *iwwiz, from Proto-Germanic *izwiz. While initial /j/ would be sometimes expected due to the "breaking" of the Old English sequence /e͜oːw/, its universality is probably due to analogy with ye, while the usual vocalism in /uː/ rather than expected /iu̯/ (or /ɔu̯/ when "broken") is perhaps either due to low stress or dissimilation from the initial /j/. Late Middle English /jiu̯/ is probably not a continuation of early /iu̯/ but rather reflects the influence of /j/ (either upon /uː/ or the diphthong that resulted from the initial stages of the Great Vowel Shift); compare Early Modern English shewer (“shower”), yewth (“youth”). The alternative late Middle English and Early Modern English form where /uː/ remains undiphthongised either represents an alternative treatment after /j/ or a generalised unstressed form. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /juː/, (Late Middle English also) /jiu̯/ IPA(key): /uː/ (West Midland) IPA(key): /iu̯/ (Early Middle English) IPA(key): /ju/ (unstressed) === Pronoun === yow (nominative ye) Second-person plural object pronoun: you (plural). c. 1395, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Clerk's Tale", Canterbury Tales, Ellesmere manuscript (c. 1410): Second-person plural reflexive pronoun: yourselves. (formal) second-person singular object pronoun: you (singular). (formal) second-person singular reflexive pronoun: yourself. ==== Descendants ==== English: youBelizean Creole: yuBislama: yuCameroon Pidgin: youJamaican Creole: yuhNigerian Pidgin: yuSranan Tongo: yuAukan: yu>? Maroon Spirit Language: iSaramaccan: yuTok Pisin: yuTorres Strait Creole: yu Middle Scots: ȝow Scots: you ==== See also ==== ==== References ==== == Scots == === Etymology === Uncertain; most likely from Old English ēow. === Pronoun === yow (personal, emphatic) (Southern Scots) you ==== See also ==== ee == Whitesands == === Noun === yow turtle === References === Jeremy Hammond, The Grammar of Nouns and Verbs in Whitesands, an Oceanic Language of Southern Vanuatu (2009), p. 81 == Wolof == === Pronunciation === === Pronoun === yow you (second-person singular subject pronoun) ==== See also ==== == Yapese == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /jɔw/ === Pronoun === yow Third-person dual pronoun; they two ==== See also ==== ==== References ==== Jensen, John Thayer (1977), Yapese Reference Grammar, Honolulu: The University press of Hawaii, pages 132-135