Old English · noun
uf
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- IPA
- /uːf/
- Syllables
- uːf (1 syllable)
Meaning
owl
vulture
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *ūfaz, *ūfōn, and then Proto-Indo-European *up-. If so, it would be a cognate with Swedish uv and Bavarian Auf.
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