Meaning

noun a member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana

noun a Kwa language spoken by the Ewe in Ghana and Togo and Benin

noun female sheep

originFrom Middle English ewe, from Old English eowu, from Proto-West Germanic *awi, from Proto-Germanic *awiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”). Cognates See also Old English ēow (“sheep”), West Frisian ei, Dutch ooi, German Aue; also Old Irish oí, Latin ovis, Tocharian B ā(ᵤ)w, Lithuanian avi̇̀s (“ewe”), Russian овца́ (ovcá).

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