row – English noun declension

English noun forms of row

Noun: row
Singularrow
Pluralrows

Sample Sentences

  • And there were windows in three rows. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings vii:4:]
  • The bright seraphim in burning row. [1646 (indicated as 1645), John Milton, “At a Solemn Musick”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], →OCLC:]
  • Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • Vyreen had just finished braiding my hair, and his call had caught me coming out of her crib with my 'rows looking tight. [2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 25:]
  • If you thought it'd be hard to get a good cornrow braiding in Latvia, think again. Porzingis said he was re-braided almost every week to keep his rows fresh. [2015 October 22, Stefan Bondy, “Kristaps Porzingis had cornrows as a kid because 'all the girls loved it'”, in New York Daily News, New York, N.Y.: Daily News L.P., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2022:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *Hreyk-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-ō
4. Proto-Indo-European *Hréykō
5. Proto-Germanic *rīgǭ
6. Proto-Germanic *raigwō
7. Proto-Germanic *raiwō
8. Proto-West Germanic *raiwu
9. Old English rǣw
10. Middle English rewe
11. English row
12. From Middle English rewe, rowe, rawe, from Old English rǣw, rāw, probably from Proto-Germanic *raiwō, *raigwō, *rīgǭ (“row, streak, line”), from Proto-Indo-European *reyk- (“to carve, scratch, etch”).
13. Cognate with Scots raw (“row”), dialectal Norwegian rå (“boundary line”), Saterland Frisian Riege (“row”), West Frisian rige (“row”), Dutch rij (“row, line”), German Low German Reeg, Riege, Rieg (“row”), German Reihe (“row”), German Riege (“sports team”). See: Middle English Nouns 'rewe', Dutch Nouns 'rij', German Nouns 'Reihe', German Nouns 'Riege'.

Verbs referencing "row"

German Nouns Rain.