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ewe
ewea female sheep
Not to be confused with:yew – an evergreen tree having needlelike or scalelike foliageyou – the pronoun of the second-person singular or plural: You may come with me. This is for you.E·we E0257300 (ā′wā′, ā′vā′)n. pl. Ewe or E·wes 1. A member of a people inhabiting southeast Ghana, southern Togo, and southern Benin.2. The Gbe language of the Ewe people.
ewe E0257200 (yo͞o)n. A female sheep, especially when full grown.
[Middle English, from Old English ēwe, ēowu; see owi- in Indo-European roots.]ewe (juː) n (Animals) a. a female sheepb. (as modifier): a ewe lamb. [Old English ēowu; related to Old Norse ǣr ewe, Old High German ou, Latin ovis sheep, Sanskrit avi]
Ewe (ˈɛwɛ) npl Ewe or Ewes1. (Peoples) a member of a Negroid people of W Africa living chiefly in the forests of E Ghana, Togo, and Benin2. (Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo familyewe (yu; Dial. yoʊ)
n. a female sheep, esp. when fully mature. [before 1000; Middle English; Old English ēowu, ēwe; c. Old High German ou, ouwi, Latin ovis, Greek óïs, oîs] E•we (ˈeɪ veɪ, ˈeɪ weɪ)
n., pl. -wes, (esp. collectively) -we. 1. a. a member of an African people of S Togo and SE Ghana. b. the Kwa language of this people. 2. a. a member of any of a group of African peoples, including the Ewe and the Fon. b. the Kwa languages of these peoples. Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | Ewe - a member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern GhanaBenin, Dahomey, Republic of Benin - a country on western coast of Africa; formerly under French controlTogo, Togolese Republic - a republic on the western coast of Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; formerly under French controlGhana, Gold Coast, Republic of Ghana - a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; "Ghana was colonized as the Gold Coast by the British"African - a native or inhabitant of Africa | | 2. | Ewe - a Kwa language spoken by the Ewe in Ghana and Togo and BeninKwa - a group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria | | 3. |  ewe - female sheep udder, bag - mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)sheep - woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat |
Translationsewe (juː) noun a female sheep. The ewe had two lambs. 母綿羊 母羊Ewe
Ewe (ā`vā, –wā), African people, numbering over 3 million, who live in SE Ghana, S Togo, and S Benin. When German Togoland was partitioned after World War I, the Ewe in that colony were divided between France and Britain. The question of reunion was constantly before the United Nations after World War II, but no satisfactory terms of reunification could be found. Part of the Ewe passed (1957) with British Togoland to Ghana by referendum. The Ewe are the largest political group in Togo. Bibliography See A. Ellis, The Ewe-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa (1966). Ewe (self-designation, Ewegbe), a people related to the Fon. The Ewe inhabit southeastern Ghana and southern Togo. According to a 1975 estimate, they number 2.55 million; they speak a Kwa language. Ancient beliefs involving ancestor and nature worship are widespread among the Ewe, although some profess Islam or Christianity. Before European colonization in the 19th century, land cultivation, handicrafts, trade, art, and folklore had reached a high level of development. In modern Ewe society, capitalist relations are combined with vestiges of clan and feudal relations. The Ewe engage primarily in land cultivation, their chief crops being maize, yams, cassava, and sweet potatoes; cocoa beans, oil-palm products, and cotton are produced for export. REFERENCEVologdina, V. N. “Narod eve.” In Afrikanskii etnograficheskii sb., [fasc] 1. Moscow, 1956.
Ewe the language of the Ewe people, spoken in southeastern Ghana and in southern Togo and Benin (Dahomey). According to a 1972 estimate, there are approximately 2 million speakers of Ewe, which is a Kwa language, of the Niger-Kordofanian language family. Ewe comprises three dialect groups: the western, central, and eastern. The western is made up of Anglo (Awuna) and the “interior” dialects; the central is made up of Wachi, Adja, and Gen; and the eastern is made up of Gun, Fon, and Mahi. Ewe is distinguished by a rich vowel system: it has seven vowels, five of which have nasalized pairs. All vowels have three degrees of length, and there are numerous diphthongs. Consonants include the bicentral labiovelars gb and kp, and there is an opposition between bilabial and labiovelar f and v. Ewe has a dental and retroflex d and clusters of obstruents and resonants. Lexically distinctive tones exhibit phonological opposition. Ewe is an isolating language. Simple words are mainly monosyllabic, and composition and reduplication are used extensively. There are derivational prefixes. The person and number of the verb are expressed by subject pronouns; aspect and tense, by special markers and by reduplication. The attribute precedes the word it modifies. A Latin alphabet was devised in the late 19th century. Ewe literature is published mainly in the Anglo dialect. REFERENCESWestermann, D. Grammatik der Ewe-Sprache. Berlin, 1907.
Westermann, D. Wörterbuch der Ewe-Sprache. Berlin, 1954.
Ansre, G. The Tonal Structure of Ewe. Hartford, Conn., 1961.V. IA. PORKHOMOVSKII ewe[yü] (vertebrate zoology) A mature female sheep, goat, or related animal, as the smaller antelopes. ewea. a female sheep b. (as modifier): a ewe lamb ewe
ewe (yo͞o)n. A female sheep, especially when full grown.EWE
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Words related to Ewenoun a member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern GhanaRelated Words- Benin
- Dahomey
- Republic of Benin
- Togo
- Togolese Republic
- Ghana
- Gold Coast
- Republic of Ghana
- African
noun a Kwa language spoken by the Ewe in Ghana and Togo and BeninRelated Wordsnoun female sheepRelated Words |