Ewe

Noun

 * 1) A female sheep, as opposed to a ram.

Adjectives
mild-faced; fulsome.

Thesaurus
Partlet, bellwether, biddy, bitch, bossy, brood mare, cow, doe, ewe lamb, filly, guinea hen, gyp, heifer, hen, hind, jenny, jumbuck, lamb, lambkin, lioness, mare, mutton, nanny, nanny goat, peahen, ram, roe, she-bear, she-goat, she-lion, sheep, slut, sow, teg, tigress, tup, vixen, wether, yeanling

Etymology
eowu:, feminine of eow: 'sheep', from (compare West Frisian ei: 'ewe', Dutch ooi: 'id.',  ouwi: 'sheep'), from  'sheep' (compare Hittite ḫau̯i:,  ói:,  ovis:, Tocharian B aw:,  avis: 'ewe',  овьнъ: 'ram', овьца: 'ewe; sheep',  ὄϊς:,  अवि:).

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Armenian: մաքի (mak'i)
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: dañvadez -ed
 * Catalan: ovella
 * Czech:
 * Danish: moderfår
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Ewe: alẽnɔ
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Mutterschaf, Aue , Zibbe , Zicke
 * Greek:, αρνάδα, αμνάδα
 * Hebrew: (rachél, rakhél)
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: (めひつじ, mehitsuji)
 * Latin: ovis (f)
 * Macedonian: овца
 * Mandarin: 母羊
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: oita
 * Russian: овца (ovtsa), ярка (yarka)
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: овца
 * Latin: ovca
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: oveja, oveja madre
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: cuu cai
 * Volapük:

Anagrams

 * eew
 * wee

Trivia
Because of its pronunciation, ewe and its homophone you form one of only two homophone pairs in modern English that share no letters in their spelling in common. The other pair is 'I' and "eye", with "aye" also for some dialects.

Etymology
eve:, aqua:.

Noun

 * 1) water

Noun

 * 1) Ewe (member of a West African ethnic group)
 * 2) Ewe (language)
 * 3) Used also adjectivally with a hyphen or in genitive plural
 * ewe-kulttuuri; ewejen kulttuuri
 * Ewe culture
 * ewe-kansa
 * Ewe people
 * ewejen kieli
 * Ewe language
 * 1) In plural (ewet), the Ewe (ethnic group)

Noun

 * 1) Ewe (language)