furrow
/ˈfʌɹoʊ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.57 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "Don't walk across that deep furrow in the field."
- "The family feeling was intensified as we stopped to speak to mothers in the cottage gardens, or waved to distant tractors turning over chocolate-brown furrows and driven by 'my dad' or 'my Uncle Bob'."
- "When she was tired, a deep furrow appeared on her forehead."
- "Cart wheels can furrow roads."
- "Morn in the white wake of the morning star / Came furrowing all the orient into gold."
- "As she pored over the company's bewildering tax documents, she furrowed her brows, wrinkled her nose, and began to frown her befuddlement."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *perḱ-der. Proto-Germanic *furhs Proto-West Germanic *furh Old English furh Middle English forow English furrow From Middle English forow, furgh, from Old English furh, from Proto-West Germanic *furh, from Proto-Germanic *furhs (compare Saterland Frisian Fuurge, Dutch voor, German Furche, Swedish fåra, Norwegian Bokmål fure), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“to dig”). Compare Welsh rhych (“furrow”), Latin porca (“ridge, balk”), Lithuanian prapar̃šas (“ditch”), Sanskrit पर्शान (párśāna, “chasm”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: forow, furh, *furh, *furhs, *perḱ-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfʌɹoʊ/
- British English: /ˈfʌɹəʊ/