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Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch soge, suege, from Old Dutch *soga, from Proto-Germanic *sugō, from Proto-Indo-European *suh₂kéh₂, from *sū-. Compare Low German Söög, West Frisian sûch, English sow, Swedish sugga, Norwegian sugge. The regular form in Middle Dutch was soge with a back vowel, with fronted suege occurring only in the western dialects. The original form is still found dialectally as zoog.
Pronunciation
Noun
zeug f (plural zeugen, diminutive zeugje n)
- sow (female pig)
- Synonyms: keu, mot
- (figuratively, derogatory) bitch, cow, blatant term of abuse for a 'beastly' human female
Hypernyms
Coordinate terms
- beer (“boar, male pig”)
- big (“piglet, young pig”)
Descendants