# yow
## English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

yow (plural yows)
* Alternative form of yowe

### Etymology 2
#### Interjection

yow
* Expression of pain; ouch.
    Yow! I dropped it on my toe!
* Expression of humorous surprise or emphasis.
    You've been divorced four times? Yow!

##### Synonyms

* ouch, youch

### Anagrams

* Wyo.

## Huave
### Noun

yow
* water

#### Derived terms

* awiich yow
* ayar yow
* lamiyow
* landeow yow
* miyow
* neyow
* oniiüg yow
* üüch yow

### References

* Stairs Kreger, Glenn Albert, Scharfe de Stairs, Emily Florence, Olvaries Oviedo, Proceso, Ponce Villanueva, Tereso, Comonfort Llave, Lorenzo (1981) Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 24)‎ (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 184–185

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* yowe, you, youe, yo, yoe, yogh, yaw, yew, yhu, yu, yw, yhow, ȝou, ȝow, ȝouȝ, ȝowȝ, ȝo, ȝowe, ȝu, ȝw, ȝue, ȝiow, ȝeu, ȝew, ȝewe, ȝaw, ȝhow, ȝhowe, ȝiu, ȝeow, ȝehw, ȝuw, gow, gu, giu, geu, geau, eou, eow, eo, eowe, eu, euwȝ, ou, ow, æu, owe, hou, heou, heu

### Etymology

From Old English ēow, from Proto-West Germanic *iwwiz, from Proto-Germanic *izwiz. Initial /j/ is by analogy with ye.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /juː/, /jiu̯/
* (Early Middle English) IPA: /uː/, /iu̯/
* (unstressed) IPA: /ju/

### Pronoun

yow (nominative ye)
* Second-person plural object pronoun: you (plural).
** c. 1395, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Clerk's Tale", Canterbury Tales, Ellesmere manuscript (c. 1410):
    certes lord / so wel vs liketh yow / And al youre werk / and euere han doon / þat we / Ne koude nat vs self deuysen how / We myghte lyuen / in moore felicitee [...].(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* (formal) second-person singular object pronoun: you (singular).

#### Descendants

* English: you
* Scots: you

#### See also

| | | | nominative | accusative | dative | genitive | possessive |
| singular | 1st-person | 1st-person | I, ich, ik | me | me | min mi$^1$ | min |
| singular | 2nd-person | 2nd-person | þou | þe | þe | þin þi$^1$ | þin |
| singular | 3rd-person | m | he | him hine$^2$ | him | his | his hisen |
| singular | 3rd-person | f | sche, heo | hire heo | hire | hire | hire hires, hiren |
| singular | 3rd-person | n | hit | hit | hit him$^2$ | his, hit | — |
| dual$^3$ | 1st-person | 1st-person | wit | unk | unk | unker | unker |
| dual$^3$ | 2nd-person | 2nd-person | ȝit | inc | inc | inker | inker |
| plural | 1st-person | 1st-person | we | us, ous | us, ous | oure | oure oures, ouren |
| plural | 2nd-person$^4$ | 2nd-person$^4$ | ye | yow | yow | your | your youres, youren |
| plural | 3rd-person | inh. | he | hem he$^2$ | hem | here | here heres, heren |
| plural | 3rd-person | bor. | þei | þem, þeim | þem, þeim | þeir | þeir þeires, þeiren |
$^1$Used preconsonantally or before h. $^2$Early or dialectal. $^3$Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third-person dual forms in Middle English. $^4$Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

#### References

* “you, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 May 2018.

## Scots
### Etymology

Uncertain; most likely from Old English ēow.

### Pronoun

yow (personal, emphatic)
* (Southern Scots) you

#### See also

* ee

## Whitesands
### Noun

yow
* turtle

### References

* Jeremy Hammond, The Grammar of Nouns and Verbs in Whitesands, an Oceanic Language of Southern Vanuatu (2009), p. 81

## Wolof
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Pronoun

yow
* you (second-person singular subject pronoun)

#### See also

| | singular subject | plural subject | singular object | plural object |
| 1st person | man | nun | ma | nu |
| 2nd person | yow | yeen | la | leen |
| 3rd person | moom | ñoom | ko | leen |

## Yapese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jɔw/

### Pronoun

yow
* Third-person dual pronoun; they two

#### See also

| | | Singular | Dual | Plural |
| First* | inclusive | | gadow | gadaed |
| First* | exclusive | gaeg | gamow | gamaed |
| Second | Second | guur | gimeew | gimeed |
| Third | Third | qiir | yow | yaed |
| Other expressions |||||
| Partitive** | Partitive** | | bagyow | bagyaed |
| * The first person can be inclusive (I/we and you) or exclusive (I/we and not you). This differentiation is meaningful only in the dual and in the plural. ** Partitive pronouns are used in expressions such as one of them two (dual) or one of them (plural). |||||

#### References

* Jensen, John Thayer (1977) Yapese Reference Grammar, Honolulu: The University press of Hawaii, pages 132-135