fowe

fowe

1. Alternative form of fou

• how

From Middle English how, from Old English hū, from Proto-West Germanic *hwō. Cognate with Scots foo, hoo (“how”). The initial f- is by analogy with fest, hist (“fist”).

• IPA^(key): /fuː/, /huː/
• Homophones: fho, howe

fowe

1. how
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 14, page 90:

     Jaane got leigheen; shoo pleast aam all, fowe?

     Joan set them a laughing, she pleased them all, how?

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 90