lowen

From low +‎ -en.

• Rhymes: -əʊɪn

lowen (third-person singular simple present lowens, present participle lowening, simple past and past participle lowened)

1. (rare, ambitransitive) To make or become low.
   • 1815, In the King's Bench, page 28:

     […] and a wide ware or float can be put down in lieu thereof, of the same height as the said water gates or floats when lowened, and of the exact width and other dimensions as the present float at Wangford mill, and in the same manner as the float at Wangford mill; […]

   • 1894, David Simpson Graham, The New Werther, Or The Wealsman's Wrath, page 196:

     Must I be lowened from the clouds dazzling
     Olympus' heights unto the apex point
     Which man nor scales, Joveward, save when we fill
     His soul on wing with swiftly-thinning air,
     Wherein gross mortal parts retard the rise?

   • 1898, The Far East: An Exponent of Japanese Thoughts and Affairs, page 272:

     And in the morning it will be foul weather to-day; for the sky is red and lowening.

• Enlow, Olwen, lowne, nowel

• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [ˈluːɐn]
• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [ˈlɔwɛn]

From Middle Cornish lowen, from Old Cornish louen, from Proto-Brythonic *llowen, from Proto-Celtic *lowenos. Cognate with Breton laouen, Welsh llawen

lowen (comparative lowenna / moy lowen, superlative an lowenna)

1. happy, glad

yn lowen

1. happily

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lowen f (plural lowennow)

1. singulative of low (“lice”)

• “lowen” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.
• Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF) (in Cornish), 2018, published 2018, page 250

Inherited from Old English hlōwan (strong class 7), from Proto-West Germanic *hlōan, from Proto-Germanic *hlōaną.

• loowen, low, lowe, lowyn

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔu̯ən/

lowen (third-person singular simple present loweth, present participle lowende, lowynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle lowed)

1. (intransitive) To moo or low (of a cow or other bovine)
   • c. 1250, Anonymous, "Cuckoo Song" (as printed in The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1900):

     Lhouth after calve cu

     Lows after calving a cow

2. (intransitive, rare) To moan or drone (of a human or trumpet)

• English: low
• Middle Scots: low
  • Scots: low

• “louen, v.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “low, v.¹”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Either borrowed from Old Norse loga or formed anew from lowe (“flame”) +‎ -en (infinitival suffix) in Middle English.

• lowe, lowyn

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔu̯ən/

lowen (third-person singular simple present loweth, present participle lowende, lowynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle lowed) (East Midland, Northern, West Midland)

1. (intransitive) To burn or blaze (literally or figuratively):
   1. To glisten or glimmer.
   2. To be ardent or fervent.
2. (transitive, rare) To agitate or incite.

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

• “louen, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “lowe, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• Dance, Richard; Pons-Sanz, Sara; Schorn, Brittany (2019), “lawid v. (past sg.)”, in The Gersum Project ⁠‎^[1], University of Cambridge, University of Cardiff, and the University of Sheffield.

lowen

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

lowen

1. big, large