# iau
## Angevin
### Alternative forms

* ieu

### Noun

iau
* water
* rain

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

## Bourbonnais-Berrichon
### Noun

iau
* water

#### Alternative forms

* aïe
* aigue (Eguzon)

### Further reading

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

## Champenois
### Pronunciation

IPA: /jo/

### Noun

iau
* (Auve) water

### References

* Tarbé, Prosper (1851) Recherches sur l'histoire du langage et des patois de Champagne‎ (in French), volume 1, Reims, page 110

## Esperanto
### Verb

iau
* jussive of iai

## Hokkien

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

## Malay
### Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *qiaw (“animal cry”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /iau̯/, /ia̯u̯/
* (Johor-Riau) IPA: [iʲäu̯]

### Noun

iau (Jawi spelling ايياو, plural iau-iau, informal 1st possessive iauku, 2nd possessive iaumu, 3rd possessive iaunya)
* (onomatopoeia) sound of a cat meowing

### Verb

iau (Jawi spelling ايياو)
* to meow

#### Derived terms

Regular affixed derivations:
* mengiau [agent focus] (meN-)
* pengiau [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)

### Further reading

* “iau” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qiaw”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

## Norman
### Etymology

From Old French ewe, Latin aqua.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jaʊ/, /jo/

### Noun

iau f (plural iaux)
* water

## Picard
### Etymology

From Old French iaue, from Latin aqua, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂. Compare French eau.

### Noun

iau f
* 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.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Poitevin-Saintongeais
### Etymology

Latin aqua.

### Noun

iau
* water

#### Alternative forms

* aive
* aigue, ève (Saintongeais)

### Further reading

* Pierre Rézeau, Le "Vocabulaire poitevin" (1808–1825) de Lubin Mauduyt: Édition critique (1994)

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [jaw]
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: i-au

### Verb

iau
* inflection of lua:
** first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** third-person plural present indicative

## Tolai
### Pronoun

iau
* First-person singular pronoun: I, me

#### Declension

| | singular | dual | paucal | plural |
| 1st person exclusive | iau | amir mir | amital mital | avet ave$^1$ |
| 1st person inclusive | - | dor | datal | dat da$^1$ |
| 2nd person | u | amur mur | amutal mutal | avat ava$^1$ |
| 3rd person | ia i | dir di | dital | diat dia$^1$ |
| $^{1)}$ The plural pronouns lose the final -t when preceding a verb. |||||

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /jaɨ̯/
* (South Wales) IPA: /jai̯/
* Homophone: Iau (“Jupiter”)
* Rhymes: -aɨ̯

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

iau m or f (plural ieuau or ieuoedd)
* yoke (frame around the neck)

##### Derived terms

* ieuo (“yoke”, verb)

### Etymology 2

Variant of afu (“liver”).

#### Noun

iau m or f (plural ieuau)
* (North Wales) liver
    Synonym: afu

### Etymology 3

From a form Proto-Celtic *yow-yos, an irregular comparative of *yuwankos.

#### Adjective

iau
* comparative degree of ieuanc (“young”)
* comparative degree of ifanc (“young”)

### Further reading

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “iau”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies