sow – English noun declension

English noun forms of sow

Noun: sow
Singularsow
Pluralsows

Sample Sentences

  • Lucky he wasn't a sow. They've usually just dropped a cub this time of year. A sow would have been cranky as hell. [1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 11:]
  • In England, it was generally termed a 'sow', if the weight was above 10 cwts., if below, it was termed a 'pig' from which the present term 'pig iron' is derived. [1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 160:]

Nouns inflected like sow

sow,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *sew-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *sewH-?
4. Proto-Indo-European *suH-der.
5. Proto-Germanic *sugō
6. Proto-West Germanic *sugu
7. Old English sugu
8. Middle English sowe
9. English sow
10. From Middle English sowe, from Old English sugu, from Proto-West Germanic *sugu, from Proto-Germanic *sugō, probably from Proto-Indo-European *su(H)kéh₂, from *suH- (“pig”).
11. See also West Frisian sûch, Dutch zeug, Low German Söög, German Sau, Swedish sugga, Norwegian sugge; also Welsh hwch (“pig”), Sanskrit सूकर (sūkará, “swine, boar”); also Danish so, German Sau, Latin sūs, Tocharian B suwo, Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Albanian thi, Avestan 𐬵𐬏 (hū, “boar”). See also swine. Doublet of soor. See: Middle English Nouns 'sowe', Old English Nouns 'sugu', Dutch Nouns 'zeug', German Nouns 'Sau', Swedish Nouns 'sugga', Danish Nouns 'so', German Nouns 'Sau', Latin Nouns 'sūs', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ὗς'.

Verbs referencing "sow"

Swedish Nouns sugga.