lowen

See also: Löwen

English

Etymology

From low +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊɪn

Verb

lowen (third-person singular simple present lowens, present participle lowening, simple past and past participle lowened)

1. (rare, transitive, intransitive) To make or become low.
   • 1815, In the King's Bench, page 28:

     […] and a wide ware or float can be put down in lieu thereof, of the same height as the said water gates or floats when lowened, and of the exact width and other dimensions as the present float at Wangford mill, and in the same manner as the float at Wangford mill; […]

   • 1894, David Simpson Graham, The New Werther, Or The Wealsman's Wrath, page 196:

     Must I be lowened from the clouds dazzling
     Olympus' heights unto the apex point
     Which man nor scales, Joveward, save when we fill
     His soul on wing with swiftly-thinning air,
     Wherein gross mortal parts retard the rise?

   • 1898, The Far East: An Exponent of Japanese Thoughts and Affairs, page 272:

     And in the morning it will be foul weather to-day; for the sky is red and lowening.

Anagrams

• Enlow, Olwen, lowne, nowel

Cornish

Etymology

From Middle Cornish lowen, from Old Cornish louen, from Proto-Brythonic *llowen, from Proto-Celtic *lowenos. Cognate with Breton laouen, Welsh llawen.

Adjective

lowen

1. happy, glad

Derived terms

• keslowena
• keslowenhe
• lowena
• lowenek
• lowenhe
• omlowenhe
• pur lowen
• yn lowen

 

References

• Cornish-English Dictionary from Maga's Online Dictionary
• Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF) (in Cornish), 2018, published 2018, page 250

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hlōwan.

Alternative forms

• louen, loowen, louwen, lhouen

Verb

lowen

1. to low (moo), to bawl
   • c. 1250, Anonymous, "Cuckoo Song" (as printed in The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1900):

     Lhouth after calve cu

     Lows after calving a cow

Descendants

• English: low
• Scots: low

References

• “louen, v.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

lowen

1. Alternative form of loven (“to love”)

Ratahan

Adjective

lowen

1. big, large