lowen
See also: Löwen
Englisch
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -əʊɪn
Verb
editlowen (third-person singular simple present lowens, present participle lowening, simple past and past participle lowened)
- (rare, transitive, intransitive) To make or become low.
- 1815, In the King's Bench, page 28:
- […] and a wide ware or float can be put down in lieu thereof, of the same height as the said water gates or floats when lowened, and of the exact width and other dimensions as the present float at Wangford mill, and in the same manner as the float at Wangford mill; […]
- 1894, David Simpson Graham, The New Werther, Or The Wealsman's Wrath, page 196:
- Must I be lowened from the clouds dazzling
Olympus' heights unto the apex point
Which man nor scales, Joveward, save when we fill
His soul on wing with swiftly-thinning air,
Wherein gross mortal parts retard the rise?
- 1898, The Far East: An Exponent of Japanese Thoughts and Affairs, page 272:
- And in the morning it will be foul weather to-day; for the sky is red and lowening.
Anagrams
editCornish
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Cornish lowen, from Old Cornish louen, from Proto-Brythonic *llowen, from Proto-Celtic *lowenos. Cognate with Breton laouen, Welsh llawen.
Adjective
editlowen
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Cornish-English Dictionary from Maga's Online Dictionary
- Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF) (in Cornish), 2018, published 2018, page 250
Middle English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old English hlōwan.
Alternative forms
editVerb
editlowen
- to low (moo), to bawl
- c. 1250, Anonymous, "Cuckoo Song" (as printed in The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1900):
- Lhouth after calve cu
- Lows after calving a cow
- c. 1250, Anonymous, "Cuckoo Song" (as printed in The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1900):
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “louen, v.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
editVerb
editlowen
- Alternative form of loven (“to love”)
Ratahan
editAdjective
editlowen
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