ooi – Dutch noun declension

Dutch noun forms of ooi

Noun: ooi
Gender: Feminine Hyphenation:
Sg.ooi
Pl.ooien

Sample Sentences

  • 1988, Het Boek, International Bible Society, Genesis 31:38 (I have been with you for twenty years and all the time I took good care of your ewes and goats; so that they brought healthy offspring into the world. I never touched merely a single ram to eat one of them.)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ooi, ou, from Old Dutch *ōi, from Proto-West Germanic *awi, from Proto-Germanic *awiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis. Compare German Aue, West Frisian ei, English ewe. Unrelated to ooibos (“riparian forest”). See: German Nouns 'Aue', English Nouns 'ewe'.

Verbs referencing "ooi"

English Nouns ewe.

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