iau

See also: Iau, iaʻu, IAU, -iau, i-au, and iáu

Angevin

Alternative forms

• ieu

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)

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

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

Verb

iau

1. jussive of iai

Malay

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iau̯/, /ia̯u̯/
• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): [iʲäu̯]

Noun

iau (Jawi spelling ايياو‎, plural iau-iau, informal 1st possessive iauku, 2nd possessive iaumu, 3rd possessive iaunya)

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 | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen (2010–), “*qiaw”, in The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

Min Nan

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

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]
• 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/
• Rhymes: -aɨ̯

Etymology 1

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

Noun

iau m or f (plural ieuau or ieuoedd)

1. yoke (frame around the neck)

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 *yowankos.

Adjective

iau

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

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
iau	unchanged	unchanged	hiau
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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