ewe

Meanings

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

1. An ethnic group who inhabit southeastern Ghana, Togo, and Benin.

1. The Niger-Congo language, belonging to the Gbe family, spoken by these people.

1. Of or pertaining to the Ewe people or language.

1. Initialism of extreme wildfire event.
2. Epilogue, What Epilogue?; a subgenre of Harry Potter fanfiction which pointedly ignores the epilogue of the final novel.

Etymology

From 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).