auu
Translingual
Etymology
Clipping of English Auye with u as a placeholder.
Symbol
auu
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Auye terms
Sudovian
Etymology
Etymology unclear.[1]
- Possibly borrowed from Middle High German ouwe (“landscape by water, island”), cf. German Aue (“meadow by a river”).
- Possibly from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wandō, from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥. Compare Lithuanian vanduõ, Latvian ûdens, Old Prussian wundan, but this is questionable.[2]
Noun
auu
References
- ^ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985), “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, , page 70: “auu ‘vanduo, l. woda’ 23.”
- ^ “vanduõ” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–): “Ob nar. auu (vgl. PJS 10) etymologisch hierher gehört, ist zweifelhaft.”.