Noun: theow
| Singular | theow |
| Plural | theows |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like theow
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English theu, thewe (“servant; one bound in service to another, serf; disciple or servant of God; created being; servant of the devil; (figuratively) servant to sin, wealth, etc.”) [and other forms], from Old English þēow, þēo (“servant; slave”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *þeu (“slave”), from Proto-Germanic *þewaz, *þegwaz (“servant; slave”), from Proto-Indo-European *tekwos (“runner”), from Proto-Indo-European *tekʷ- (“to run; to flow”).
2. Cognates
3. * Dutch dienen (“to serve”)
4. * German dienen (“to serve”)
5. * Gothic 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐍃 (þius, “bondman, slave; servant”)
6. * Old English þegn (“servant; minister; vassal”)
7. * Old High German dio (“unfree”), diu (“servant”) See: Gothic Nouns '
𐌸𐌹𐌿𐍃', Old English Nouns '
þegn'.