| | :: The ''OED'' [2ⁿᵈ ed., 1989] has {{term||cowen}}, but only as an eighteenth-century spelling of {{term||cowan}} (which sense [http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=cowen&action=historysubmit&diff=16164232&oldid=16048720 I've just added to our entry]); note that its entry is (AFAICT) unchanged from that of the ''NED'' [1ˢᵗ ed., 1893] except for the addition of one quotation. Rather than being some older sense, "someone who is not a witch", if such usage exists, is probably a more recent (''i.e.'', post–nineteenth-century) adoption of the Masonic term by Wiccan and/or Neopagan groups. As for "the commander of the genii (chief cowen)", that usage, if its exists, is wholly unlike the other senses we have, and may be a corruption of the term by conflation with {{term|coven|lang=en}}. — Raifʻhār Doremítzwr ~ ([[User:Doremítzwr|U]] · [[User talk:Doremítzwr|T]] · [[Special:Contributions/Doremítzwr|C]]) ~ 02:30, 26 January 2012 (UTC) | | :: The ''OED'' [2ⁿᵈ ed., 1989] has {{term||cowen}}, but only as an eighteenth-century spelling of {{term||cowan}} (which sense [http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=cowen&action=historysubmit&diff=16164232&oldid=16048720 I've just added to our entry]); note that its entry is (AFAICT) unchanged from that of the ''NED'' [1ˢᵗ ed., 1893] except for the addition of one quotation. Rather than being some older sense, "someone who is not a witch", if such usage exists, is probably a more recent (''i.e.'', post–nineteenth-century) adoption of the Masonic term by Wiccan and/or Neopagan groups. As for "the commander of the genii (chief cowen)", that usage, if its exists, is wholly unlike the other senses we have, and may be a corruption of the term by conflation with {{term|coven|lang=en}}. — Raifʻhār Doremítzwr ~ ([[User:Doremítzwr|U]] · [[User talk:Doremítzwr|T]] · [[Special:Contributions/Doremítzwr|C]]) ~ 02:30, 26 January 2012 (UTC) |
| | This seems to be in the wrong script, but I believe it's supposed to be Greenlandic, not Inuktitut? —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 21:57, 17 January 2012 (UTC) | | This seems to be in the wrong script, but I believe it's supposed to be Greenlandic, not Inuktitut? —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 21:57, 17 January 2012 (UTC) |
