iau

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

Angevin

Noun

iau

1. water

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)

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Bourbonnais-Berrichon

Noun

iau

1. water

Alternative forms

• aïe
• aigue (Eguzon)

Further reading

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

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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

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Min Nan

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

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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.

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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)

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Romanian

Verb

iau

1. first-person singular present indicative of lua
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of lua
3. third-person plural present indicative of lua

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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.

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Tourangeau

Noun

1. water
2. rain

Further reading

• Maurice Davau, Le Vieux parler tourangeau: sa phonétique, ses mots et locutions (1979)
• René Coursault, Contes naïfs et nouvelles facétieuses: le parler tourangeau (1990)

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Welsh

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jaɨ̯/
• IPA^(key): /jai̯/

Noun

iau m or f (plural ieuau or ieuoedd)

1. yoke

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.