单词 | ewe |
释义 | ewe1/juː /noun A female sheep.Even the family pet let loose in the countryside can cause great distress to sheep, including pregnant ewes and lambs....
OriginOld English eowu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ooi and German Aue. Ewe2/ˈeɪweɪ /noun (plural same) 1A member of a West African people of Ghana, Togo, and Benin.If genuinely free elections were permitted, power would inevitably shift towards tribes in the South, predominantly the Ewe....
2 [mass noun] The language of the Ewe, belonging to the Kwa group. It has about 3 million speakers.While most publications in the Ghanaian and Ghanaian American communities are written in English, some are also written in the Twi dialects of Asante, Fante, and Akwapim and in other languages such as Ewe, Ga, Dagbane, and Nzema....
adjective Relating to or denoting the Ewe or their language.Debates surround the term kente, which is traced by some to the Ewe language, by others to Asante and Fante terms....
OriginThe name in Ewe. |
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