"yow" meaning in All languages combined

See yow on Wiktionary

Interjection [English]

Head templates: {{en-interj}} yow
  1. Expression of pain; ouch. Categories (topical): Pain
    Sense id: en-yow-en-intj-pOhTEp9x Disambiguation of Pain: 82 9 9 Categories (other): English 3-letter words, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 7 entries Disambiguation of English 3-letter words: 40 26 34 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 34 30 Disambiguation of Pages with 7 entries: 14 11 12 31 31
  2. Expression of humorous surprise or emphasis.
    Sense id: en-yow-en-intj-4xyybgz0 Categories (other): English 3-letter words, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 7 entries Disambiguation of English 3-letter words: 40 26 34 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 34 30 Disambiguation of Pages with 7 entries: 14 11 12 31 31
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: ouch, youch
Etymology number: 2

Noun [English]

Forms: yows [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} yow (plural yows)
  1. Alternative form of yowe Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: yowe
    Sense id: en-yow-en-noun-iH62GsJW Categories (other): English 3-letter words, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 7 entries Disambiguation of English 3-letter words: 40 26 34 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 34 30 Disambiguation of Pages with 7 entries: 14 11 12 31 31
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [Huave]

Head templates: {{head|huv|noun}} yow
  1. water Derived forms: awiich yow, ayar yow, lamiyow, landeow yow, miyow, neyow, oniiüg yow, üüch yow
    Sense id: en-yow-huv-noun-D0FoSQ44 Categories (other): Huave entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 7 entries, Pages with entries

Pronoun [Middle English]

IPA: /juː/, /jiu̯/, /uː/ [Early-Middle-English], /iu̯/ [Early-Middle-English], /ju/ [unstressed] Forms: ye [nominative]
Etymology: From Old English ēow, from Proto-West Germanic *iwwiz, from Proto-Germanic *izwiz. Initial /j/ is by analogy with ye. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|ēow}} Old English ēow, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*iwwiz}} Proto-West Germanic *iwwiz, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*izwiz}} Proto-Germanic *izwiz Head templates: {{head|enm|pronoun|nominative|ye}} yow (nominative ye)
  1. Second-person plural object pronoun: you (plural).
    Sense id: en-yow-enm-pron-jP2E~-~7 Categories (other): Pages with 7 entries, Pages with entries, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English personal pronouns, Middle English pronouns Disambiguation of Pages with 7 entries: 14 11 12 31 31 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 10 8 8 37 37 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Middle English personal pronouns: 50 50 Disambiguation of Middle English pronouns: 50 50
  2. (formal) second-person singular object pronoun: you (singular). Tags: formal
    Sense id: en-yow-enm-pron-5t7PAWqi Categories (other): Pages with 7 entries, Pages with entries, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English personal pronouns, Middle English pronouns Disambiguation of Pages with 7 entries: 14 11 12 31 31 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 10 8 8 37 37 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Middle English personal pronouns: 50 50 Disambiguation of Middle English pronouns: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: 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 Related terms: I, ich, ik, me, minmi1, min, þou, þe, þinþi1, þin, he, himhine2, him, his, hishisen, sche, heo, hireheo, hire, hirehires, hiren, hit, hithim2, , wit, unk, unker, ȝit, inc, inker, we, us, ous, oure, oureoures, ouren, ye, your, youryoures, youren, hemhe2, hem, here, hereheres, heren, þei, þem, þeim, þeir, þeirþeires, þeiren

Pronoun [Scots]

Etymology: Uncertain; most likely from Old English ēow. Etymology templates: {{unc|sco}} Uncertain, {{inh|sco|ang|ēow}} Old English ēow Head templates: {{head|sco|pronoun|personal, emphatic}} yow (personal, emphatic), {{sco-pron|desc=personal, emphatic}} yow (personal, emphatic)
  1. (Southern Scots) you Tags: Southern-Scots, emphatic, personal Related terms: ee

Noun [Whitesands]

Head templates: {{head|tnp|noun}} yow
  1. turtle
    Sense id: en-yow-tnp-noun-dN1zC1w2 Categories (other): Pages with 7 entries, Pages with entries, Whitesands entries with incorrect language header

Pronoun [Wolof]

Audio: Wo-yow.ogg
Head templates: {{head|wo|pronoun}} yow
  1. you (second-person singular subject pronoun) Related terms: man, nun, ma, nu, yeen, la, leen, moom, ñoom, ko

Pronoun [Yapese]

IPA: /jɔw/
Head templates: {{head|yap|pronoun}} yow
  1. Third-person dual pronoun; they two

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "Yow! I dropped it on my toe!",
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          "surprise"
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      "word": "ouch"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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          "word": "ayar yow"
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        },
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          "word": "miyow"
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          "word": "neyow"
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          "word": "oniiüg yow"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sche"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
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    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hireheo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hire"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
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    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hiren"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hit"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hithim2"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "—"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "wit"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "unk"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "unker"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ȝit"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "inc"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "inker"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "we"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "us"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ous"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "oure"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "oureoures"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ouren"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ye"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "your"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "youryoures"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "youren"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hemhe2"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hem"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "here"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hereheres"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "heren"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "þei"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "þem"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "þeim"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "þeir"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "þeirþeires"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "þeiren"
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          "_dis": "14 11 12 31 31",
          "kind": "other",
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        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "c. 1395, Geoffrey Chaucer, \"The Clerk's Tale\", Canterbury Tales, Ellesmere manuscript (c. 1410)",
          "text": "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 [...].",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "Second-person plural object pronoun: you (plural)."
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        {
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          "kind": "other",
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      "id": "en-yow-enm-pron-5t7PAWqi",
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(formal) second-person singular object pronoun: you (singular)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/juː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/jiu̯/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/uː/",
      "tags": [
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iu̯/",
      "tags": [
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ju/",
      "tags": [
        "unstressed"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "yowe"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "you"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "youe"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "yo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "yoe"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "yogh"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "yaw"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "yew"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "yhu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "yu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "yw"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "yhow"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ȝou"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ȝow"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ȝouȝ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ȝowȝ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ȝo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ȝowe"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ȝu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ȝw"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ȝue"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ȝiow"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ȝeu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ȝew"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ȝewe"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ȝaw"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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          "word": "la"
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          "word": "leen"
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          "word": "ko"
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          "word": "gadaed"
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          "word": "gaeg"
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        {
          "word": "gamow"
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        {
          "word": "gamaed"
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        {
          "word": "guur"
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        {
          "word": "gimeew"
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        {
          "word": "gimeed"
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          "word": "qiir"
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          "word": "bagyow"
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          "word": "bagyaed"
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      "ipa": "/jɔw/"
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}
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      "word": "ouch"
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      "word": "youch"
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}

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      "word": "awiich yow"
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    {
      "word": "ayar yow"
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      "word": "lamiyow"
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      "word": "landeow yow"
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      "word": "miyow"
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      "word": "neyow"
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      "word": "üüch yow"
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    }
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  "word": "yow"
}

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    "Middle English pronouns",
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    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Pages with 7 entries",
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  "etymology_text": "From Old English ēow, from Proto-West Germanic *iwwiz, from Proto-Germanic *izwiz. Initial /j/ is by analogy with ye.",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "I"
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      "word": "ich"
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      "word": "ik"
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      "word": "minmi1"
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      "word": "min"
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      "word": "þou"
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      "word": "þe"
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      "word": "þin"
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      "word": "he"
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    {
      "word": "himhine2"
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    {
      "word": "him"
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      "word": "hishisen"
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    {
      "word": "sche"
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    {
      "word": "heo"
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    {
      "word": "hireheo"
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    {
      "word": "hire"
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    {
      "word": "hirehires"
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    {
      "word": "hiren"
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    {
      "word": "hit"
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    {
      "word": "hithim2"
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    {
      "word": "—"
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      "word": "wit"
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    {
      "word": "unk"
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    {
      "word": "unker"
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    {
      "word": "ȝit"
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    {
      "word": "inc"
    },
    {
      "word": "inker"
    },
    {
      "word": "we"
    },
    {
      "word": "us"
    },
    {
      "word": "ous"
    },
    {
      "word": "oure"
    },
    {
      "word": "oureoures"
    },
    {
      "word": "ouren"
    },
    {
      "word": "ye"
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    {
      "word": "your"
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    {
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    {
      "word": "youren"
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    {
      "word": "hemhe2"
    },
    {
      "word": "hem"
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    {
      "word": "here"
    },
    {
      "word": "hereheres"
    },
    {
      "word": "heren"
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    {
      "word": "þeim"
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    {
      "word": "þeir"
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    {
      "word": "þeiren"
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        "Requests for translations of Middle English quotations"
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      "ipa": "/jiu̯/"
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      "ipa": "/uː/",
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        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iu̯/",
      "tags": [
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ju/",
      "tags": [
        "unstressed"
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      "word": "yowe"
    },
    {
      "word": "you"
    },
    {
      "word": "youe"
    },
    {
      "word": "yo"
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    {
      "word": "yoe"
    },
    {
      "word": "yogh"
    },
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      "word": "yaw"
    },
    {
      "word": "yew"
    },
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      "word": "yhu"
    },
    {
      "word": "yu"
    },
    {
      "word": "yw"
    },
    {
      "word": "yhow"
    },
    {
      "word": "ȝou"
    },
    {
      "word": "ȝow"
    },
    {
      "word": "ȝouȝ"
    },
    {
      "word": "ȝowȝ"
    },
    {
      "word": "ȝo"
    },
    {
      "word": "ȝowe"
    },
    {
      "word": "ȝu"
    },
    {
      "word": "ȝw"
    },
    {
      "word": "ȝue"
    },
    {
      "word": "ȝiow"
    },
    {
      "word": "ȝeu"
    },
    {
      "word": "ȝew"
    },
    {
      "word": "ȝewe"
    },
    {
      "word": "ȝaw"
    },
    {
      "word": "ȝhow"
    },
    {
      "word": "ȝhowe"
    },
    {
      "word": "ȝiu"
    },
    {
      "word": "ȝeow"
    },
    {
      "word": "ȝehw"
    },
    {
      "word": "ȝuw"
    },
    {
      "word": "gow"
    },
    {
      "word": "gu"
    },
    {
      "word": "giu"
    },
    {
      "word": "geu"
    },
    {
      "word": "geau"
    },
    {
      "word": "eou"
    },
    {
      "word": "eow"
    },
    {
      "word": "eo"
    },
    {
      "word": "eowe"
    },
    {
      "word": "eu"
    },
    {
      "word": "euwȝ"
    },
    {
      "word": "ou"
    },
    {
      "word": "ow"
    },
    {
      "word": "æu"
    },
    {
      "word": "owe"
    },
    {
      "word": "hou"
    },
    {
      "word": "heou"
    },
    {
      "word": "heu"
    }
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}

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        "3": "personal, emphatic"
      },
      "expansion": "yow (personal, emphatic)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "desc": "personal, emphatic"
      },
      "expansion": "yow (personal, emphatic)",
      "name": "sco-pron"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Scots",
  "lang_code": "sco",
  "pos": "pron",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "ee"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 7 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Scots entries with incorrect language header",
        "Scots lemmas",
        "Scots pronouns",
        "Scots terms derived from Old English",
        "Scots terms inherited from Old English",
        "Scots terms with unknown etymologies",
        "Southern Scots"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "you"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "you",
          "you"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Southern Scots) you"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Southern-Scots",
        "emphatic",
        "personal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "yow"
}

{
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tnp",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "yow",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Whitesands",
  "lang_code": "tnp",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 7 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Whitesands entries with incorrect language header",
        "Whitesands lemmas",
        "Whitesands nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "turtle"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "turtle",
          "turtle"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "yow"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "wo",
        "2": "pronoun"
      },
      "expansion": "yow",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Wolof",
  "lang_code": "wo",
  "pos": "pron",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "man"
    },
    {
      "word": "nun"
    },
    {
      "word": "ma"
    },
    {
      "word": "nu"
    },
    {
      "word": "yeen"
    },
    {
      "word": "la"
    },
    {
      "word": "leen"
    },
    {
      "word": "moom"
    },
    {
      "word": "ñoom"
    },
    {
      "word": "ko"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 7 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Wolof entries with incorrect language header",
        "Wolof lemmas",
        "Wolof pronouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "you (second-person singular subject pronoun)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "you",
          "you"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "Wo-yow.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/84/Wo-yow.ogg/Wo-yow.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Wo-yow.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "yow"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yap",
        "2": "pronoun"
      },
      "expansion": "yow",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Yapese",
  "lang_code": "yap",
  "pos": "pron",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "gadow"
    },
    {
      "word": "gadaed"
    },
    {
      "word": "gaeg"
    },
    {
      "word": "gamow"
    },
    {
      "word": "gamaed"
    },
    {
      "word": "guur"
    },
    {
      "word": "gimeew"
    },
    {
      "word": "gimeed"
    },
    {
      "word": "qiir"
    },
    {
      "word": "yaed"
    },
    {
      "word": "bagyow"
    },
    {
      "word": "bagyaed"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 7 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Yapese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Yapese lemmas",
        "Yapese pronouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Third-person dual pronoun; they two"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "they",
          "they"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/jɔw/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "yow"
}

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  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </div>",
  "path": [
    "yow"
  ],
  "section": "Middle English",
  "subsection": "pronoun",
  "title": "yow",
  "trace": ""
}

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