సావు

See also: స్వ, స్వీ, స్వే, స్వా, and సేవ

Telugu

Etymology

From the substitution of the చ (ca) sound with స (sa) found in the speech of many Telugu dialects.

Noun

సావు • (sāvu) ? (plural సావులు)

1. Eye dialect spelling of చావు (cāvu, “death”).

References

• "సావు" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 1328
• సావు at Telugu On-line Dictionaries Project on Andhra Bharati, partially sponsored by the Telugu Association of North America (in Telugu)