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noun juːju A female sheep. Example sentencesExamples - Even the family pet let loose in the countryside can cause great distress to sheep, including pregnant ewes and lambs.
- There are now about 600,000 Scottish Black Face ewes in the country after de-stocking.
- A further 2,000 breeding ewes and hoggets were on offer on the day also.
- A mid season lambing flock of 240 ewes is also run with the cattle enterprise.
- Sheep scrapie, a similar prion disease, passes from ewes to their lambs.
- Some of the sheep, mostly ewes, were in shock and had to be carried via a human chain from the lorry.
- Small amounts of meal fed in time will rectify loss in condition, cramming it in later only leads to thinner ewes and larger lambs.
- The ewes in lamb are being moved to safer paddocks beyond the museum, while the goats and the pony have been found temporary homes.
- Some viewers complained about the mustering of pregnant ewes and newborn lambs.
- It was following the weaning of the lambs from the ewes during the second week of August, when we also weaned Daisy's two lambs.
- Marauding dogs massacred ewes in lamb in Aramoho at the weekend.
- Mountain ewes produce less lambs than their lowland counterparts and fetch a lower prices at the mart.
- A ewe suckling two lambs growing at 0.3 kg per day is as productive as a dairy cow yielding 30 litres of milk per day.
- Farmers have been unable to bring in ewes for lambing after wintering them on hills and in fields, while calving has also been disrupted.
- With the ewe numbers hovering around 200, it looks as though we shall be selling the ewes back in the sheep market.
- Firstly, we shall be selling in the sheep shed with a full live auction of hoggs, ewes and spring lambs, if there are any about.
- They have about 1,000 ewes plus lambs between them and are anxiously watching them for signs of the disease.
- A farmer has threatened to shoot any dogs he sees on his land after four ewes with lambs were injured and one killed in a late-night attack.
- Although many ewes have already dropped their lambs, some producers have ewes lambing through to August.
- The couple had kept a flock of sheep in that particular field, 30 ewes and two rams to be exact.
Origin Old English eowu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ooi and German Aue. noun ˈeɪweɪˈāvā 1A member of a West African people of Ghana, Togo, and Benin. Example sentencesExamples - Many coastal Ghanaian peoples like the Fante, Ga, and Ewe have not forgotten Asante violence against them, even though the national history textbooks celebrate Asante resistance against the British.
- The Ewe live in southeastern Ghana as well as the southern regions of neighboring countries Togo and Benin.
- He notes that studies tending to view Ewe only in light of Asante ‘obscure the originality and creativity of both peoples and lead to questions of influence and borrowing that tend to fan ethnic chauvinism on both sides’.
- If genuinely free elections were permitted, power would inevitably shift towards tribes in the South, predominantly the Ewe.
- They are followed by the Ewe, Ga, Adangme, Guan, and Kyerepong in the south.
- Intricately decorated and culturally rich, the 15 drums are native to the Ewe of southeastern Ghana.
2mass noun The language of the Ewe, belonging to the Kwa group. It has about 3 million speakers. Example sentencesExamples - The Gullah language retains a great deal West African syntax and combines English vocabulary with words from African languages such as Ewe, Mandinka, Igbo, Twi, Yoruba, and Mende.
- French is the official language of government, but both Ewe of the Kwa and Kabye of the Gur language families have semi-official status.
- By contrast, Ewe, Gbandili, an Admawa-Ubangi language, and Ngwo, a Grassfields language, are languages whose logophoric pronouns have both singular and plural forms.
- You learned quickly to introduce yourself to a new acquaintance in proper English and to recoil in horror and disgust when the response you got was phrased in Ga or Dagaare or Twi or Ewe.
- Other languages spoken by large numbers of Ghanaians include Ewe, Ga, Guan, and Gur.
- Thus, Clements reports that in Ewe all logophoric constructions contain the complementizer be.
- While most publications in the Ghanaian and Ghanaian American communities are written in English, some are also written in the Twi dialects of Asante, Fante, and Akwapim and in other languages such as Ewe, Ga, Dagbane, and Nzema.
- Broadcasting mostly in Twi, but also in Ewe, Ga, and some English, the station generally reaches those who are not on salary, who have less education and less disposable income.
adjective ˈeɪweɪˈāvā Relating to or denoting the Ewe or their language. Example sentencesExamples - According to Ewe tradition, the arrival of the Alaga, clad in palm fronds, signals a day of vengeance.
- They marched, chanted, and danced according to Ewe vodou tradition, deploying their political authority via cultural-social acts.
- Debates surround the term kente, which is traced by some to the Ewe language, by others to Asante and Fante terms.
- UM joins a growing list of schools, such as the University of West Virginia, the University of North Texas and the University of California at Berkeley, whose specialized drumming directors are indigenous Ewe musicians.
- Adedze's descriptions of the rules by which Ewe and Asante weavers distinguish their textiles are complicated by Anne Spencer's profile of Samuel Cophie, a master weaver in Bonwire.
- Over time, exemption from taxation came to be seen by women as a right, an integral component of Ewe women's conception of an individual self and a collective Lomé womanhood which served as a platform for the 1933 uprising.
- In unit 2, ‘The Making and Design of Kente Cloth,’ Avins and Quick chronicle the evolution of the Asante and Ewe weaving and describe the delicate and time-consuming processes of putting the cloth together.
- In Ewe culture, we believe that if there is something on your mind, it sits on the stomach, making you sick.
- Togo is an Ewe (pronounced Ev'hé) word meaning ‘lake’ or ‘lagoon.’
- The Asante, Ewe, Fon and Fante peoples provided the bulk of imports into Barbados.
- Cophie is Ewe, not Asante, a fact that did not inhibit his apprenticeship to an Asante weaver and his adaptation of Asante-style motifs along with the Ewe patterns.
- But in the Ewe language (spoken in Ghana), linguist Felix Ameka points out that saying someone has red eyes means that they are completely focussed.
- She claims that Ewe Rente is strictly pictorial (a mistake her source, Venice Lamb, also makes), when, in fact, certain regional styles of Ewe weaving are completely devoid of representational imagery.
- The Ewe divide proverbs into two groups of metaphorical use according to social status and age of their performers.
- Halo, oral poetry in the Ewe language, has been a major influence on the poetry of Kofi Awoonor.
- In revisiting these cultural and gendered actions, Ewe women's political authority was dynamic, threatening, and highly successful on many levels.
- For Ewe women they constituted the single most powerful weapon of social control, as they literally and spiritually polluted the physical person and memory of an individual.
- Northern and Ewe women, on the other hand, have fewer commercial opportunities and assume heavier agricultural responsibilities in addition to their housekeeping chores.
- Over a period of several decades, Ewe women in the flourishing market communities solidified commercial ties and cemented their role as familial providers.
- And like the British authorities who were blind to the Igbo tradition of ‘sitting on a man,’ the French remained oblivious to the extent of Ewe women's informal political authority.
nounjuyo͞o A female sheep. Example sentencesExamples - Firstly, we shall be selling in the sheep shed with a full live auction of hoggs, ewes and spring lambs, if there are any about.
- Some viewers complained about the mustering of pregnant ewes and newborn lambs.
- Mountain ewes produce less lambs than their lowland counterparts and fetch a lower prices at the mart.
- A ewe suckling two lambs growing at 0.3 kg per day is as productive as a dairy cow yielding 30 litres of milk per day.
- Some of the sheep, mostly ewes, were in shock and had to be carried via a human chain from the lorry.
- Marauding dogs massacred ewes in lamb in Aramoho at the weekend.
- Farmers have been unable to bring in ewes for lambing after wintering them on hills and in fields, while calving has also been disrupted.
- A farmer has threatened to shoot any dogs he sees on his land after four ewes with lambs were injured and one killed in a late-night attack.
- Even the family pet let loose in the countryside can cause great distress to sheep, including pregnant ewes and lambs.
- There are now about 600,000 Scottish Black Face ewes in the country after de-stocking.
- Small amounts of meal fed in time will rectify loss in condition, cramming it in later only leads to thinner ewes and larger lambs.
- The ewes in lamb are being moved to safer paddocks beyond the museum, while the goats and the pony have been found temporary homes.
- A further 2,000 breeding ewes and hoggets were on offer on the day also.
- Although many ewes have already dropped their lambs, some producers have ewes lambing through to August.
- It was following the weaning of the lambs from the ewes during the second week of August, when we also weaned Daisy's two lambs.
- They have about 1,000 ewes plus lambs between them and are anxiously watching them for signs of the disease.
- A mid season lambing flock of 240 ewes is also run with the cattle enterprise.
- With the ewe numbers hovering around 200, it looks as though we shall be selling the ewes back in the sheep market.
- The couple had kept a flock of sheep in that particular field, 30 ewes and two rams to be exact.
- Sheep scrapie, a similar prion disease, passes from ewes to their lambs.
Origin Old English eowu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ooi and German Aue. nounˈāvā 1A member of a people of Ghana, Togo, and Benin. Example sentencesExamples - Many coastal Ghanaian peoples like the Fante, Ga, and Ewe have not forgotten Asante violence against them, even though the national history textbooks celebrate Asante resistance against the British.
- They are followed by the Ewe, Ga, Adangme, Guan, and Kyerepong in the south.
- The Ewe live in southeastern Ghana as well as the southern regions of neighboring countries Togo and Benin.
- Intricately decorated and culturally rich, the 15 drums are native to the Ewe of southeastern Ghana.
- He notes that studies tending to view Ewe only in light of Asante ‘obscure the originality and creativity of both peoples and lead to questions of influence and borrowing that tend to fan ethnic chauvinism on both sides’.
- If genuinely free elections were permitted, power would inevitably shift towards tribes in the South, predominantly the Ewe.
2The Kwa language of the Ewe. Example sentencesExamples - Broadcasting mostly in Twi, but also in Ewe, Ga, and some English, the station generally reaches those who are not on salary, who have less education and less disposable income.
- You learned quickly to introduce yourself to a new acquaintance in proper English and to recoil in horror and disgust when the response you got was phrased in Ga or Dagaare or Twi or Ewe.
- Thus, Clements reports that in Ewe all logophoric constructions contain the complementizer be.
- Other languages spoken by large numbers of Ghanaians include Ewe, Ga, Guan, and Gur.
- By contrast, Ewe, Gbandili, an Admawa-Ubangi language, and Ngwo, a Grassfields language, are languages whose logophoric pronouns have both singular and plural forms.
- The Gullah language retains a great deal West African syntax and combines English vocabulary with words from African languages such as Ewe, Mandinka, Igbo, Twi, Yoruba, and Mende.
- French is the official language of government, but both Ewe of the Kwa and Kabye of the Gur language families have semi-official status.
- While most publications in the Ghanaian and Ghanaian American communities are written in English, some are also written in the Twi dialects of Asante, Fante, and Akwapim and in other languages such as Ewe, Ga, Dagbane, and Nzema.
adjectiveˈāvā Relating to the Ewe or their language. Example sentencesExamples - Adedze's descriptions of the rules by which Ewe and Asante weavers distinguish their textiles are complicated by Anne Spencer's profile of Samuel Cophie, a master weaver in Bonwire.
- In unit 2, ‘The Making and Design of Kente Cloth,’ Avins and Quick chronicle the evolution of the Asante and Ewe weaving and describe the delicate and time-consuming processes of putting the cloth together.
- The Ewe divide proverbs into two groups of metaphorical use according to social status and age of their performers.
- Over time, exemption from taxation came to be seen by women as a right, an integral component of Ewe women's conception of an individual self and a collective Lomé womanhood which served as a platform for the 1933 uprising.
- The Asante, Ewe, Fon and Fante peoples provided the bulk of imports into Barbados.
- Togo is an Ewe (pronounced Ev'hé) word meaning ‘lake’ or ‘lagoon.’
- They marched, chanted, and danced according to Ewe vodou tradition, deploying their political authority via cultural-social acts.
- For Ewe women they constituted the single most powerful weapon of social control, as they literally and spiritually polluted the physical person and memory of an individual.
- In revisiting these cultural and gendered actions, Ewe women's political authority was dynamic, threatening, and highly successful on many levels.
- Northern and Ewe women, on the other hand, have fewer commercial opportunities and assume heavier agricultural responsibilities in addition to their housekeeping chores.
- Debates surround the term kente, which is traced by some to the Ewe language, by others to Asante and Fante terms.
- Halo, oral poetry in the Ewe language, has been a major influence on the poetry of Kofi Awoonor.
- In Ewe culture, we believe that if there is something on your mind, it sits on the stomach, making you sick.
- But in the Ewe language (spoken in Ghana), linguist Felix Ameka points out that saying someone has red eyes means that they are completely focussed.
- UM joins a growing list of schools, such as the University of West Virginia, the University of North Texas and the University of California at Berkeley, whose specialized drumming directors are indigenous Ewe musicians.
- According to Ewe tradition, the arrival of the Alaga, clad in palm fronds, signals a day of vengeance.
- Cophie is Ewe, not Asante, a fact that did not inhibit his apprenticeship to an Asante weaver and his adaptation of Asante-style motifs along with the Ewe patterns.
- Over a period of several decades, Ewe women in the flourishing market communities solidified commercial ties and cemented their role as familial providers.
- And like the British authorities who were blind to the Igbo tradition of ‘sitting on a man,’ the French remained oblivious to the extent of Ewe women's informal political authority.
- She claims that Ewe Rente is strictly pictorial (a mistake her source, Venice Lamb, also makes), when, in fact, certain regional styles of Ewe weaving are completely devoid of representational imagery.
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