Sau

From Middle High German sū, from Old High German sū, from Proto-West Germanic *sū. Cognate with German Sau.

• IPA^(key): /sɑɔ̯/

Sau f (plural Sai)

1. pig, sow
2. (card games) ace

• Sou (chiefly Moselle Franconian)

From Middle High German sū, from Old High German sū, from Proto-West Germanic *sū.

• IPA^(key): /zou̯/

Sau f (plural Säu or Sei, diminutive Säuche or Seiche)

1. (Ripuarian, western Moselle Franconian) sow (female pig)
2. (eastern Moselle Franconian) pig (of any gender)

   Synonyms: Ferke, Schwein

• The inflected forms with -äu- are Ripuarian, those with -ei- are Moselle Franconian.

From Middle High German sū, from Old High German sū, from Proto-West Germanic *sū.

• IPA^(key): /zaʊ̯/, [zaʊ̯] (Germany)

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• IPA^(key): /saʊ̯/, [saɔ̯] (Austria, Southern Germany, Switzerland)
• Rhymes: -aʊ̯

Sau f (genitive Sau, plural Säue or Sauen)

1. sow (female pig)

   Hypernym: Schwein

2. (archaic or dialectal) pig (of either gender)
3. (figurative) a dislikable or unethical person

• Both plurals are roughly equally common in the concrete sense “female pig”, though Sauen is usually preferred in farmers’ and hunters’ parlance. In the figurative sense, only Säue is used.

• “Sau” in Duden online
• “Sau” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

• sau (Wiesemann spelling)

From Central Franconian Sau, from Middle High German sū, from Old High German sū, from Proto-West Germanic *sū, from Proto-Germanic *sūz, from Proto-Indo-European *suH-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaʊ̯/
• Rhymes: -aʊ̯
• Syllabification: Sau

Sau f (plural Sei)

1. sow (female pig)

   Die Sau hod nein Witzje. ― The sow has nine piglets.

   • 2022 November, Naye Testamënt Tswaayxproochich [Bilingual New Testament], Barueri: Sociedade Bíblica do Brasil, →ISBN, 1Pheeter 2:22:

     Was mit tëne layt paseyert is pewayst tas tii xpriche woer sin: “Te hunt keet tsurik an sayne aychne khots” un “Ti kewex sau keet noch mool in te pratx wënsle.”

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• Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Sau”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 138, column 1

From Middle High German sū, from Old High German sū, from Proto-West Germanic *sū. Cognate with German Sau, English sow, Icelandic sýr, Swedish so.

• IPA^(key): /zæːʊ̯/

Sau f (plural Sai)

1. sow (female pig)

From Middle High German sū, from Old High German sū, from Proto-West Germanic *sū. Compare German Sau, Dutch zeug, English sow.

Sau f (plural Sei)

1. sow (female pig)
2. filthy person

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