mow

Significado

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)

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/məʊ/

Etimoloxía

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”).