mow

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. To cut down grass or crops.
2. To cut down or slaughter in great numbers.

Noun

1. The act of mowing (a garden, grass, etc.).
2. A shot played with a sweeping or scythe-like motion.

Noun

A scornful grimace; a wry face.

Noun

1. A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
2. The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.

Noun

Alternative form of mew (a seagull)

Concepts

faucher

tondre

couper

couper l’herbe

moissonner

tailler

abattre

grimace

récolter

décimer

moissonnner

fraucher

fenil

tondre le gazon

couper l'herbe

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/məʊ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Middle English mowen (participle mowen), from Old English māwan (past tense mēow, past participle māwen), from Proto-West Germanic *māan, from Proto-Germanic *mēaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂meh₁- (“to mow, reap”).
See also Dutch maaien, German mähen, Danish meje, Swedish meja; also Hittite [script needed] (ḫamešḫa, “spring/early summer”, literally “mowing time”), Latin metō (“I harvest, mow”), Ancient Greek ἀμάω (amáō, “I mow”).