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Ewe
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ewe EWE -ewe éwé
English
+ language
+ people
Alternative forms
en Eve Eʋe
Etymology
en :bor ee:Eʋe + 1
Pronunciation
en /ˈeɪ.weɪ/ /ˈeɪ.veɪ/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Ewe.wav Southern England
Noun
sp +
An ethnic group who inhabit southeastern Ghana, Togo and Benin.
en James Minahan Ewes Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: Ethnic and National Groups Around the World II (D–K) Westport, Conn.; London Greenwood Press 2002 590 0-313-31617-1 Most Ewes are farmers or fishermen, although a growing number are urban dwellers living in Accra, Lomé, and other cities. The Ewes are a patrilineal people, with inheritance passing from father to son.
en Jakob Spieth Emmanuel F. Tsaku; Marcellinus Edorh; Raphael Avornyo; Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu Komla Amoaku [The HO – Tribe] Economic Life The Ewe People: A Study of the Ewe People in German Togo Legon, Accra, Ghana Sub-Saharan Publishers 2011 289 978-9988-647-90-2 A person from Ho, like all Ewes, attaches great importance to a friendly greeting.
en Elvis Yevudey The representation of African languages and cultures on social media: a case of Ewe in Ghana Augustine Agwuele; Adams Bodomo The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics w:Routledge 2018 978-1-138-22829-0 part IV (Language and society: theory and practice) Among the Ewes, and equally among other language and ethnic groups in Ghana, names form an integral part of people’s identity.
Translations
ethnic group
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 埃維族 Āiwéizǔ, cmn 埃維人 Āiwéirén
Dutch: nl Ewe p
Ewe: ee Eʋeawo, ee Eʋegbetɔwo
Finnish: fi ewe ewet p
French: fr éwé m, fr Éwé m
Japanese: ja エウェ人 Ewejin
Proper noun
The Niger-Congo language, belonging to the Gbe family, spoken by these people.
Translations
language
Akan: ak Ayigbe
Belarusian: be эве
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 埃維語 Āiwéiyǔ
Dutch: nl Ewe n
Ewe: ee Eʋe, ee Eʋegbe
Finnish: fi ewe
French: fr éwé m, fr éoué m rare
Irish: ga Éabhais f
Japanese: ja エウェ語 Ewego
Macedonian: mk еве
Russian: ru эве
Swedish: sv ewe c
Tajik: tg эве
Ukrainian: uk еве
Adjective
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Of or pertaining to the Ewe people or language.
Translations
pertaining to the Ewe people or language
Chinese:
Mandarin: people cmn 埃維人 埃維人的 Āiwéirén de, language cmn 埃維語 埃維語的 Āiwéiyǔ de
Dutch: nl Ewe Ewe-
Finnish: fi ewe ewe-; fi ewe ewejen genitive of noun, fi ewe-kansan genitive of noun; fi ewenkielinen of language
See also
en Eweland
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Further reading
1 ee ewe
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Anagrams
en eew Wee wee WEE eew
en Ethnonyms Languages
Dutch
Pronunciation
nl Nl-Ewe.ogg
Proper noun
nl proper noun p
en Ewe ethnic group
Proper noun
nl proper noun n
en Ewe language
Anagrams
nl wee