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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?”, 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.”.
Categories:
- Sudovian terms borrowed from Middle High German
- Sudovian terms derived from Middle High German
- Sudovian terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Sudovian terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Sudovian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Sudovian lemmas
- Sudovian nouns
- xsv:Water
- Sudovian terms with quotations