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EweEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Borrowed from Ewe Eʋe.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗eweEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
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).
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