Noun: bowe
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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He baer a bowe ın hıs hoend and many brode arwes / Weren fythered wᵗ fayre bıheſte and many a fals treuthe (He held a bow in his hand and many broad arrows / [which] were feathered with fine agreement[s] and many a false truth […]) [c. 1390, [William Langland], “Paſſus scdu͞s de dobeſt”, in Peres plouhman (X, C-text), southwest Worcestershire, published c. 1395, folio 103, recto; republished as MS. HM 143, San Marino, CA: Huntingdon Digital Library, p. 2011:]
Nouns inflected like bowe
scalle,
schire,
schete,
bente mone,
pantere,
newe mone,
schrewe,
schanke,
schafte,
morewetid sterre,
kidenere,
yong mone,
sorinesse,
chirche,
cold sterre,
crouche,
culvere,
blasynge sterre,
do,
to, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old English boga, from Proto-West Germanic *bogō, in turn from Proto-Germanic *bugô. See: Old English Nouns '
boga'.
Verbs referencing "bowe"
English Nouns
bow.
Translations