Aue

• Au
• Awe (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /aʊ̯ə/

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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.

Aue f (genitive Aue, plural Auen)

1. (geography) flood meadow, floodplain (a flat grassy area adjacent to a river bed, subject to seasonal flooding) [from 10th c.]

   Synonyms: Flussaue, Überschemmungsgebiet

   Neckarauen ― Neckar Meadows [a placename]

2. (literary) mead, meadow
3. (Northwest German) a comparatively large stream or small river
4. (especially West Central German, South West German) a river island, particularly one in a flowing body of water, very often the Rhine [from 10th c.]

   Synonym: Flussaue

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).

Aue f (genitive Aue, plural Auen)

1. (technical or dialectal) ewe (female sheep)

   Synonyms: Schaf, Mutterschaf, Zibbe

• “Aue” in Duden online
• “Aue” in Duden online
• “Aue” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Aue” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʊ̯ə/

Aue n

1. plural of Au