auu

Sudovian

Etymology

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

auu

water
- “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 23, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):
  woda — auu
  woda — water

References

Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, →DOI, 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.”.

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