Aue

See also: aue and auê

German

Alternative forms

• Au
• Awe (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʊ̯ə/

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

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.

Noun

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, Überschwemmungsgebiet

   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

Declension

Declension of Aue [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Aue	die	Auen
genitive	einer	der	Aue	der	Auen
dative	einer	der	Aue	den	Auen
accusative	eine	die	Aue	die	Auen

Derived terms

• Altaue
• Auenlandschaft
• Auenlehm
• Auenökologie
• Auensee
• Auensystem
• Auenwald
• Auenwiese
• Flussauenlandschaft
• Hartholzaue
• Talaue
• Weichholzaue

 

Related terms

• Aa
• Aach
• Ach
• -ach
• Ache

 

Etymology 2

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).

Noun

Aue f (genitive Aue, plural Auen)

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

   Synonyms: Schaf, Mutterschaf, Zibbe

Declension

Declension of Aue [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Aue	die	Auen
genitive	einer	der	Aue	der	Auen
dative	einer	der	Aue	den	Auen
accusative	eine	die	Aue	die	Auen

Further reading

• “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.

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʊ̯ə/

Noun

Aue n

1. plural of Au