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Aue.

flood meadow, floodplain (a flat grassy area adjacent to a river bed, subject to seasonal flooding)

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Meaning & usage

noun/aʊ̯ə/
  1. flood meadow, floodplain (a flat grassy area adjacent to a river bed, subject to seasonal flooding)

    feminine
    Neckarauen
  2. mead, meadow

    feminine · literary
  3. a comparatively large stream or small river

    Northwest-German · feminine
  4. a river island, particularly one in a flowing body of water, very often the Rhine

    Central · German · South · West · especially · feminine
Where this word comes from

From Middle High German ouwe (“terrain, landscape by water, in water; island”), from Old High German ouwa, from Proto-West Germanic *auwju (“floodplain, meadow; island”), from Proto-Germanic *awjō, from earlier *agwjō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂ (“water”). Compare with Old Frisian ei, Swedish ö, Danish ø, Old Norse ey, Norwegian øy; also related to the modern German suffix -ach.

noun/aʊ̯ə/
  1. ewe (female sheep)

    dialectal · feminine
Where this word comes from

From Middle High German ouwe, from Old High German ouwi, from Proto-West Germanic *awi, from Proto-Germanic *awiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis. Cognate with Dutch ooi, English ewe, Latin ovis, Ancient Greek ὄϊς (óïs), Sanskrit अवि (ávi).

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