An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Aue

by Friedrich Kluge

Aue, feminine, ‘ewe,’ dialectic, from Middle High German ouwe, Old High German ou, feminine, ‘sheep.’ Compare Anglo-Saxon eowu, English ewe; primitively allied to Latin ovis, Greek οἵς, Lithuanian avis (Old Slovenian ovĭca), ‘sheep.’ See Schaf.