# rowen
## English
### Alternative forms

* roughings, rowet, rowett, rowings

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɹaʊən/

### Etymology 1

From Middle English rewayn, from Anglo-Norman rewain, from an Old Northern French variant of Old French regain (“an increase”).
THe alternative forms represent replacement of unanalysable final /ən/ with the more tractable suffixes -et, -ing; roughing presumably relies on a lost pronunciation of rough as /ˈɹaʊ/.

#### Noun

rowen (plural rowens)
* A second crop of hay; aftermath.
* A stubble field left unploughed until late in the autumn, so that it can be cropped by cattle.
** 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:For the wintering of cattle, about September you must turn them out that you design to keep up for a winter or a spring market, and your cows, that give milk into your rowens, till snow or a hard frost comes, and they will need no fodder.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

rowen (countable and uncountable, plural rowens)
* (Scotland) dated form of roving (“an elongate bundle of fiber”).

### Anagrams

* owner, rewon, worne

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English rōwan, from Proto-Germanic *rōaną.

#### Alternative forms

* rowe, rouwen, rowyn, reowen

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrɔu̯ən/

#### Verb

rowen
* To row; paddle (use oars to power a seaborne vehicle)
* To move by rowing or paddling (to move by using oars to power a seaborne vehicle)
* To move in the water; to paddle or splash.
* To go, travel, journey or voyage

##### Conjugation

| infinitive | (to) rowen, rowe | (to) rowen, rowe |
| | present tense | past tense |
| 1st-person singular | rowe | rew, rowed |
| 2nd-person singular | rowest | rewe, rew, rowedest |
| 3rd-person singular | roweth | rew, rowed |
| subjunctive singular | rowe | rewe$^1$, rowed$^1$ |
| imperative singular | rowe | — |
| plural$^2$ | rowen, rowe | rewen, rewe, roweden, rowede |
| imperative plural | roweth, rowe | — |
| participles | rowynge, rowende | rowen, rowe, rowed |
$^1$Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English. $^2$Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

##### Related terms

* rother

##### Descendants

* English: row
* Scots: row

##### References

* “rouen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-8.

### Etymology 2

From rewe (“row”) +‎ -en (infinitival suffix).

#### Alternative forms

* rowe, rewen, rewe

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrɔu̯ən/, /ˈrɛu̯ən/

#### Verb

rowen
* To shine; to emit light.

##### Conjugation

| infinitive | (to) rowen, rowe | (to) rowen, rowe |
| | present tense | past tense |
| 1st-person singular | rowe | rowed |
| 2nd-person singular | rowest | rowedest |
| 3rd-person singular | roweth | rowed |
| subjunctive singular | rowe | rowed |
| imperative singular | rowe | — |
| plural$^1$ | rowen, rowe | roweden, rowede |
| imperative plural | roweth, rowe | — |
| participles | rowynge, rowende | rowed, yrowed |
$^1$Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

##### References

* “reuen, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-8.

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

rowen
* Alternative form of rewen (“to regret”)

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈroː.wen/

### Verb

rōwen
* plural present subjunctive of rōwan

### Participle

rōwen
* past participle of rōwan