Owen is usually an anglicised variant of the Welsh personal name Owain . Originally a patronymic , Owen became a fixed surname in Wales beginning with the reign of Henry VIII . Etymologists consider it to originate from Eugene , meaning 'noble-born'. According to T. J. Morgan and Prys Morgan in Welsh Surnames : "the name is a derivation of the Latin Eugenis > OW Ou[u]ein , Eug[u]ein ... variously written in MW as Ewein , Owein , Ywein . LL gives the names Euguen , Iguein , Yuein , Ouein . The corresponding form in Irish is Eoghan ." Morgan and Morgan note that there are less likely alternative explanations, and agree with Rachel Bromwich that Welsh Owein "is normally latinised as Eugenius ", and that both the Welsh and Irish forms are Latin derivatives.
16-775: [REDACTED] Look up owen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Owen may refer to: People and fictional characters [ edit ] Owen (name) , including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname Places [ edit ] United States [ edit ] Owen, Missouri , a ghost town Owen, Wisconsin Owen County, Indiana Owen County, Kentucky Owen Township (disambiguation) Mount Owen (Colorado) Mount Owen (Wyoming) Elsewhere [ edit ] Owen Island , South Shetland Islands, Antarctica Owen Sound ,
32-464: A folk etymology process, because both Owain and Ouen / Audwin have a typical anglicised form of Owen . A relatively uncommon English surname, Owin , has also sometimes been spelt Owen . The following notable people have Owen as a surname or first name. Homonym In linguistics , homonyms are words which are either homographs —words that have the same spelling (regardless of pronunciation)—or homophones —words that have
48-487: A ' bowed ' line, reflecting its similarity to the weapon. Even according to the most restrictive definitions, various pairs of sounds and meanings of bow , Bow and bough are homonyms , homographs , homophones , heteronyms , heterographs , capitonyms and are polysemous . A lime can refer to a fruit or a material . A mold ( mould ) can refer to a fungus or an industrial cast . The words there , their , and they're are examples of three words that are of
64-755: A city in Ontario, Canada Owen, South Australia , a small town Owen, Germany , town in Baden-Württemberg Mount Owen (disambiguation) Port Owen , South Africa Ships [ edit ] USS Owen (DD-536) , a destroyer that took part in World War II and the Korean War HMS ; Owen (K640) , a British Royal Navy frigate Other uses [ edit ] Owen (automobile) , an American car made from 1910 to 1914 Owen (musician) ,
80-554: A set of homonyms is called homonymy , and the associated adjective is homonymous , homonymic , or in Latin, equivocal . Additionally, the adjective homonymous can be used wherever two items share the same name, independent of how closely they are related in terms of their meaning or etymology. For example, the word "once" (meaning "one time") is homonymous with the term for "eleven" in Spanish ( once ). The word homonym comes from
96-404: A single pronunciation and spelling (the weapon and the knot); two meanings with two different pronunciations (the knot and the act of bending at the waist), and two distinct meanings sharing the same sound but different spellings ( bow , the act of bending at the waist, and bough , the branch of a tree). In addition, it has several related but distinct meanings – a bent line is sometimes called
112-457: A singular pronunciation, have different spellings and vastly different meanings. These three words are commonly misused (or, alternatively, misspelled). The words metal and mettle are polysemes and homophones, but not homographs. Homonymy can lead to communicative conflicts and thus trigger lexical ( onomasiological ) change. This is known as homonymic conflict . This leads to a species of informal fallacy of thought and argument called by
128-410: A solo project of American indie rock singer-songwriter Mike Kinsella Owen (album) , a 2001 album Owen (hippopotamus) , a young orphan hippopotamus who formed a bond with a giant tortoise Owen gun , an Australian World War II submachine gun Owen Graduate School of Management , the graduate business school of Vanderbilt University See also [ edit ] Owen Fracture Zone ,
144-702: A transform fault which runs along the eastern boundary of the Arabian Plate, separating it from the Indo-Australian Plate Owen Owen , UK department store chain D.R. Owen (shipwreck) , a schooner that was shipwrecked in Lake Superior in 1874 Owen's (disambiguation) Owens (disambiguation) Eógan (given name) , pronounced Owen, Irish-Scottish version of the given name Owain (disambiguation) All pages with titles containing Owen Topics referred to by
160-401: Is also a capitonym, in that Fluke Corporation (commonly referred to as simply "Fluke") is a manufacturer of industrial testing equipment. Similarly, a river bank , a savings bank , a bank of switches, and a bank shot in the game of pool share a common spelling and pronunciation, but differ in meaning. The words bow and bough are examples where there are two meanings associated with
176-659: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Owen (name) The Welsh name is a cognate and near- homonym of the Irish name Eógan (pronounced /'oːəun/, partially anglicised as Eoghan , as noted by Morgan and Morgan, among other spellings). As such, the given name Owney is usually regarded as a diminutive of either Owen or Eoghan . However, another Irish name, Uaithne (/ˈuənʲə/, meaning 'wood', 'work', 'pillar', or 'harmony') has also sometimes been anglicised as Owney . Owen can also be an anglicised form of
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#1732772170955192-595: The French name Ouen , as in the case of Ouen of Rouen , metropolitan bishop of Rouen, known in Latin as Audoenus , from Germanic Audwin and Aldwin with French variant form Audoin . The anglicisation of the French digraph ou to ow is common in words such as couard > coward , and Old French poueir > power , tour > tower , etc. Welsh Owain has sometimes been Latinised as Audoenus in certain parish registers, through
208-476: The Greek ὁμώνυμος ( homonymos ), meaning "having the same name," compounded from ὁμός ( homos ) "common, same, similar" and ὄνομα ( onoma ) "name." Several similar linguistic concepts are related to homonymy. These include: A homonym which is both a homophone and a homograph is fluke , meaning: These meanings represent at least three etymologically separate lexemes , but share the one form, fluke . Fluke
224-451: The pair stalk (part of a plant) and stalk (follow/harass a person) and the pair left ( past tense of leave ) and left (opposite of right ). A distinction is sometimes made between true homonyms, which are unrelated in origin, such as skate (glide on ice) and skate (the fish), and polysemous homonyms, or polysemes, which have a shared origin, such as mouth (of a river) and mouth (of an animal). The relationship between
240-581: The same pronunciation (regardless of spelling)—or both. Using this definition, the words row (propel with oars), row (a linear arrangement) and row (an argument) are homonyms because they are homographs (though only the first two are homophones); so are the words see (vision) and sea (body of water), because they are homophones (though not homographs). A more restrictive and technical definition requires that homonyms be simultaneously homographs and homophones —that is, they have identical spelling and pronunciation but different meanings. Examples include
256-444: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Owen . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Owen&oldid=1258595685 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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