Howe

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Middle English: from Old Norse haugr ‘mound’, from a Germanic base meaning ‘high’.

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howe (n.)

also how, "artificial burial mound," 1660s, from a local word in northern England for a hill or hillock, from a Middle English use of Old Norse haugr "mound; cairn," perhaps from the root of high (adj.).