mew
A cage for hawks, especially while moultingA cage for hawks, especially while moulting.
» The cats next door mew a lot.
Die Katzen nebenan miauen viel.
Соседские коты много мяукают.
Meaning
9 sensesA cage for hawks, especially while moulting.
(in the plural)A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.
The crying sound of a cat; a meow, especially of a kitten.
the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this)
The crying sound of a gull or buzzard.
(archaic, dialectal, poetic)A gull, seagull.
Möwe
ча́йкаčájka
(obsolete)A prison, or other place of confinement.
(obsolete)A hiding place; a secret store or den.
(obsolete)A breeding-cage for birds.
(obsolete)An exclamation of disapproval; a boo.
Examples
4 sentencesThe cats next door mew a lot.
ruСоседские коты много мяукают.
deDie Katzen nebenan miauen viel.
The cat continued to mew.
ruКот продолжал мяукать.
The kitten mewed.
Cats meow. Kittens mew.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English mewe, mowe, meau, from Old English mǣw (“seagull”), from Proto-West GeFrom Middle English mewe, mowe, meau, from Old English mǣw (“seagull”), from Proto-West Germanic *maiwī, from Proto-Germanic *mai(h)waz (“seagull”). See also West Frisian meau, miuw, Dutch meeuw, German Möwe (whence Polish mewa); akin to Latvian maût (“to roar”), Old Church Slavonic мꙑꙗти (myjati, “to mew”).
From Middle English mewe, mue, mwe, from Anglo-Norman mue, muwe, and Middle French mue (“shedding feathers; cage for moulting birds; prison”), from muer (“to moult”).
From Middle English mewen; onomatopoeic.
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