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vau

See also: Vau, va'u, v-au, and väü

Translingual

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vau

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Vanuma.

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English

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Noun

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vau (plural vaus)

  1. Alternative spelling of vav

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Catalan

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Verb

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vau

  1. (auxiliary, with infinitive) second-person plural present indicative of anar

Finnish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈʋɑu̯/, [ˈʋɑ̝u̯]
  • Rhymes: -ɑu
  • Syllabification(key): vau

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English wow. Probably originally slang; used at least since the 1970s.

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vau (informal)

  1. wow
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Etymology 2

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Onomatopoeic

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vau

  1. (often repeated) Synonym of hau (“bark, woof”)

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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An onomatopoeia.

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  • IPA(key): [ˈvɒu]
  • Hyphenation: vau
  • Rhymes: -u

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vau

  1. woof (the sound a dog makes while barking)

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Hebrew וָו (waw).

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  • IPA(key): /ˈvaw/
  • Rhymes: -aw
  • Hyphenation: vàu

Noun

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vau m or f (invariable)

  1. waw, specifically:
    1. the name of the Phoenician-script letter 𐤅
    2. the name of the Hebrew-script letter ו

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Latvian

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Etymology

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Apparently of onomatopoeic (imitative) origin.

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vau

  1. woof (the sound a dog makes while barking)
    vau, vau! Krančelis kaukdams kliedza ― woof! woof! Krančelis (= dog) cried, howling

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vao, from Latin vadum (“ford”),[1][2] from Proto-Italic *waðom, from Proto-Indo-European *wh₂dʰóm, from *weh₂dʰ-.

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  • Rhymes: -aw
  • Hyphenation: vau

Noun

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vau m (plural vaus)

  1. ford (location where a river is shallow enough to be crossed by foot)
  2. shoal

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References

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  1. ^ “vau”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
  2. ^ “vau”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Tahitian

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Pronoun

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vau

  1. I, me

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Tahitian personal pronouns
singular dual plural
1st person au, vau māua (exclusive)
tāua (inclusive) 		mātou (exclusive)
tātou (inclusive)
2nd person ʻoe ʻōrua ʻoutou
3rd person ʻoia, ʻona rāua rātou
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