Aue

Meaning

1. (feminine) flood meadow, floodplain (a flat grassy area adjacent to a river bed, subject to seasonal flooding)
2. (feminine,literary) mead, meadow
3. (Northwest-German,feminine) a comparatively large stream or small river
4. (Central,German,South,West,especially,feminine) a river island, particularly one in a flowing body of water, very often the Rhine

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/aʊ̯ə/

Etymology

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.