auu
Sudovian edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
auu
- water
- “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 23, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):
References edit
- ^ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica (in Lithuanian), volume 21, number 1, 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.”.