iau

See also: Appendix:Variations of "iau"

Angevin

Alternative forms

• ieu

Etymology

Inherited from Old French iaue, from Latin aqua.

Noun

iau

1. water
2. rain

Further reading

• A. J. Verrier, Glossaire étymologique et historique des patois et des parlers de l'Anjou (1908)
• C. Ménière, Glossaire angevin étymologique comparé avec différents dialects (1881)
• Maurice Davau, Le Vieux parler tourangeau: sa phonétique, ses mots et locutions (1979)
• René Coursault, Contes naïfs et nouvelles facétieuses: le parler tourangeau (1990)

Bola

Pronoun

iau

1. first person singular

See also

Bola personal pronouns

Number	Person		Free	Subject proclitic	Object Suffix	Oblique
Singular	1st		iau	a	free pronoun	nau
	2nd		ioe	o		vomu
	3rd		ia	i	-a	vona
Dual	1st	Exclusive	maria	miri	free pronoun	ne + free pronoun
		Inclusive	tarua	tu
	2nd		marua	muru
	3rd		rua	ru
Paucal	1st	Exclusive	mateu	mete
		Inclusive	teu	te
	2nd		matou	moto
	3rd		tou	to
Plural	1st	Exclusive	mia	mi
		Inclusive	hita	si
	2nd		mua	mu
	3rd		ria	ri

Bourbonnais-Berrichon

Noun

iau

1. water

Alternative forms

• aïe
• aigue (Eguzon)

Further reading

• Paul Duchon, Grammaire et dictionnaire du patois bourbonnais (canton de Varennes)

Champenois

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jo/

Noun

iau

1. (Auve) water

References

• Tarbé, Prosper (1851), Recherches sur l'histoire du langage et des patois de Champagne‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Reims, page 110

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iˈau/
• Rhymes: -au
• Syllabification: i‧a‧u

Verb

iau

1. jussive of iai

Hokkien

For pronunciation and definitions of iau – see 枵 (“hungry”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 枵).

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *qiaw (“animal cry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iau̯/, /ia̯u̯/
• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): [iʲäu̯]

Noun

iau (Jawi spelling ايياو, plural iau-iau or iau²)

1. (onomatopoeia) sound of a cat meowing

Verb

iau (Jawi spelling ايياو)

1. to meow

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• mengiau [agent focus] (meN-)
• pengiau [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)

Further reading

• "iau" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qiaw”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Norman

Etymology

From Old French ewe, Latin aqua.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jaʊ/, /jo/

Noun

iau f (plural iaux)

1. water

Picard

Etymology

From Old French iaue, from Latin aqua, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂. Compare French eau.

Noun

iau f

1. water (drinkable liquid)
   • (Old anonymous Picard poem)

     Cate seuris rapache par chi,
     Je te barai du pain meusi,
     Et pis dal l'iau a bouère,
     Cate seuris tout noère.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Poitevin-Saintongeais

Etymology

Latin aqua.

Noun

iau

1. water

Alternative forms

• aive
• aigue, ève (Saintongeais)

Further reading

• Pierre Rézeau, Le "Vocabulaire poitevin" (1808–1825) de Lubin Mauduyt: Édition critique (1994)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jaw]

• Audio:

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• Homophone: i-au

Verb

iau

1. inflection of lua:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative

Tolai

Pronoun

iau

1. First-person singular pronoun: I, me

Declension

Tolai personal pronouns

	singular	dual	paucal	plural
1st person exclusive	iau	amir mir	amital mital	avet ave1
1st person inclusive	-	dor	datal	dat da1
2nd person	u	amur mur	amutal mutal	avat ava1
3rd person	ia i	dir di	dital	diat dia1

¹⁾ The plural pronouns lose the final -t when preceding a verb.

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /jaɨ̯/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /jai̯/
• Homophone: Iau (“Jupiter”)
• Rhymes: -aɨ̯

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *jow, from Proto-Celtic *yugom, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

Noun

iau m or f (plural ieuau or ieuoedd)

1. yoke (frame around the neck)

Derived terms

• ieuo (“yoke”, verb)

Etymology 2

Variant of afu (“liver”).

Noun

iau m or f (plural ieuau)

1. (North Wales) liver

   Synonym: afu

Etymology 3

From a form Proto-Celtic *yow-yos, an irregular comparative of *yuwankos.

Adjective

iau

1. comparative degree of ieuanc (“young”)
2. comparative degree of ifanc (“young”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of iau

radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
iau	unchanged	unchanged	hiau

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “iau”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies