Shortened fromsovereign.
sov (pluralsovs)
- (British, slang)Pound sterling.
That car of his has got to be worth a fewsovs.
- (British, slang) Asovereign(former gold coin).
sov (definite accusativesovu,pluralsovlar)
- Only used insöz-sov
sov
- genitiveplural ofsova
sov
- imperative ofsove
- past ofsove
sov
- inflection ofsove:
- imperative
- simplepast
sov
- inflection ofsove:
- past
- imperative
sov
- inflection ofsova:
- pastindicative
- imperative
FromProto-Hmong-Mien*sji̯ouX(“warm”),borrowed fromMiddle Chinese暑 (MC syoX, “hot, sultry”).[1][2]
sov
- warm
- dej sov ―warm water
- bustling withactivity
- Koj lub tsev sov sov li. ―Your house is bustling with activity (("warm" with people and noise).
- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979)White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications,→ISBN, page299.