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Ewe

 
Dictionary: E·we   (ā'wā', ā'vā') pronunciation
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n., pl., Ewe, or E·wes.
  1. A member of a people inhabiting southeast Ghana, southern Togo, and southern Benin.
  2. The Gbe language of the Ewe people.

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Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: Ewe
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Peoples of southeastern Ghana, southern Benin, and southern Togo. They speak dialects of Gbe, a Kwa language of the Niger-Congo family. The Ewe never formed a single centralized state, remaining a collection of independent communities that made temporary alliances in time of war. Most Ewe are farmers; some coastal Ewe fish. Spinning, weaving, pottery making, and blacksmithing are important crafts. They number more than 3.5 million.

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Saints: Ewe
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Ewe, patron of St. Ewe (Cornwall). Nothing certain is known about this saint. There have been tentative efforts to identify him (or her) with the Welsh Yw or the Breton Theo. Believed to be a woman (Ewa) in the Middle Ages.

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  • G. H. Doble, The Saints of Cornwall, v (1970), 30–2
 
Columbia Encyclopedia: Ewe
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Ewe (ā'vā,-wā), African people, numbering over 3 million, who live in SE Ghana, S Togo, and S Benin. When German Togoland was partitioned after World War I, the Ewe in that colony were divided between France and Britain. The question of reunion was constantly before the United Nations after World War II, but no satisfactory terms of reunification could be found. Part of the Ewe passed (1957) with British Togoland to Ghana by referendum. The Ewe are the largest political group in Togo.

Bibliography

See A. Ellis, The Ewe-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa (1966).

WordNet: Ewe
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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: a member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana

Meaning #2: a Kwa language spoken by the Ewe people in Ghana and Togo and Benin

 
 
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