Coes
/koʊz/noun
A plural form of Scots and northern English coe, meaning cows.
Did you know?The word belongs to an ancient Indo-European cattle vocabulary so important that its root also produced terms connected with oxen, herding, and pastoral life.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*gʷōus
“Cow or cattle; a foundational pastoral word”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*kūz
“Cow”
Old English
Old English
cū
“Cow”
14th Century
Northern English/Scots
coe
“Cow; a northern or Scots form related to cow”
Modern English
English
coes
“Plural of coe: cows”