lowe

lowe (plural lowes)

1. Alternative form of low ("flame").
   • 1786, Robert Burns, The Vision:

     An' by my ingle-lowe I saw, / Now bleezin' bright,

   • 1884, Richard Francis Burton, The lyricks [of] Camoens, translation of original by Luís de Camões, page 78:

     Love is a living Lowe that lurking burneth.

• Loew, owel, wole

lowe

1. eagle

Borrowed from Old Norse logi.^[1][2][3]

• lawhe, loughe, low, lowhe
• logh, lou, loue (Northern, North Midland)
• lohe (AB language); loȝhe (Ormulum)

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔu̯(ə)/

lowe (plural lowes)

1. Fire, blazing; massed flames.
2. A flame or blaze; an instance of fire.
3. (rare) Light or an instance of it; a glimmer.

• lowen

• English: low, lowe
• Middle Scots: low, lowe
  • Scots: low, lowe

Inherited from Old English hlāw (also hlǣw), from Old English hlāwe, Old English hlǣwe), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaiw, from Proto-Germanic *hlaiwą, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-.

The final vowel is generalised from Old English hlāwe, either as a dative singular or as an occasional ō-stem accusative/genitive singular (either adopting the feminine gender as expected from ō-stems or remaining masculine).

• lawe (Northern / North Midland); low (Late Middle English)
• law (Early Scots)

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔu̯(ə)/

lowe (plural lowes)

1. A barrow or mound; a gently rising and rounded natural promontory.

• Since such a sense is known in both Old English and modern English, it is likely that this term could also refer to artificial burial mounds.

• English: low; law
• Middle Scots: law
  • Scots: law, la

• “loue, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “low, n.¹”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• Kitson, Peter (1990), “On old English nouns of more than one gender”, in English Studies, volume 71, number 3, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 192-193.

lowe

1. alternative form of loven (“to praise”)

lowe

1. alternative form of lowen (“to moo”)

lowe

1. alternative form of lowen (“to burn”)

From Middle English lowe, loghe, from Old Norse logi (“fire, flame, sword”), from Proto-Germanic *lugô (“flame, blaze”).

lowe (plural lowes)

1. flame

   Is my brain no het aneugh, but ye maun set lowe to it, and burn it? (Alexander Leighton, ‘The House in Bell's Wynd’, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland)

   • 1786, Robert Burns, The Vision:

     An' by my ingle-lowe I saw, / Now bleezin' bright,

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

From English run away.

lowe

1. to flee, to run away, to escape

• lowenengre