ewe

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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. 2
   noun

   An ethnic group who inhabit southeastern Ghana, Togo, and Benin.

   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. 3
   noun

   Epilogue, What Epilogue?; a subgenre of Harry Potter fanfiction which pointedly ignores the epilogue of the final novel.

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   female sheep

5. 5
   name

   The Niger-Congo language, belonging to the Gbe family, spoken by these people.

6. 6
   adj

   Of or pertaining to the Ewe people or language.

7. 7
   noun

   Initialism of extreme wildfire event.

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).