mowe

From Anglo-Norman mowe (“grimace”). Attested from ca. 1330.

• mouwe, mouhe
• mawes, mewis pl

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔu̯(ə)/, /ˈmau̯(ə)/

mowe (plural mowes)

1. wry expression, grin
2. taunt, gibe
3. (rare) trick, prank
4. (rare) mouth of a valley

• mowen

• English: mow
• Middle Scots: mow
  • ⇒ Scots: mows, mowse, mawse

• “moue, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Inherited from Old English mūga, mūha, from Proto-West Germanic *mūgō, *mūhō, from Proto-Germanic *mūgô, *mūhō; perhaps connected to Ancient Greek μύκων (múkōn, “heap”).

• moghe, mou, mughe
• muȝe (Early Middle English)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuː(ə)/
• IPA^(key): /mu(ː)x/ (Northern also)

mowe (plural mowes or mowen)

1. A haystack; a stack of hay or grain.

• mowen

• English: mow
• Middle Scots: mow
  • Scots: mow, mou, moo

• “moue, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Inherited from Old English māge f (“kinswoman”), from māga m (“kinsman”) +‎ -e (feminine nominal suffix).

• mohw, mouwe, mow
• maȝe, maȝhe, moȝe (Early Middle English)
• maghe, mau (Northern)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔu̯(ə)/

mowe

1. A female family member; a kinswoman.

• “moue, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

mowe

1. alternative form of mewe (“gull”)

mowe

1. alternative form of mowen (“to be able to”)

mowe

1. alternative form of mowen (“to mow”)

mowe

1. alternative form of mowen (“to make a face”)

mowe (Anglo-Norman)

1. alternative form of moe (“grimace”)

• “moe2”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.