medwe

• medewe, medo, medou, medow, medowe, medu, medue, middow, mydow, mydwe

From the oblique forms of Old English mǣd, mēd, from Proto-West Germanic *mādu, from Proto-Germanic *mēdwō. Doublet of mede (“meadow”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛdwə/, /ˈmɛdɔu̯(ə)/, /ˈmɛduː/, /ˈmɛːd-/
• IPA^(key): /ˈmidwə/, /ˈmidɔu̯(ə)/, /ˈmiduː/, /ˈmeːd-/ (from Anglian Old English mēd)
• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛdiu̯(ə)/ (especially Kent, Southern, South Midland)

medwe (plural medwes)

1. meadow, clearing

   Synonym: mede

• English: meadow
• Scots: meedow
  • → Irish: míodún

• “mē̆dwe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.