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Saun vs Sauf - What's the difference?

saun | sauf |

As a noun saun

is a male elephant not part of a herd; a rogue.

As a preposition sauf is

obsolete form of save.

saun

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A male elephant not part of a herd; a rogue.
  • * 1810 , Decoy Elephants Catching a Male'', in Enos Bronson (editor), ''Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines , Volume 3, page 123,
    • Though on some occasions the mahouts accompany the koomkies'' up to the ''saun''''', yet it is safer, and generally the most sure and easy mode, for them to dismount in some contiguous cover with their blankets and ropes, leading the ''koomkies'' to the '''''saun , towards which they proceed in the most cunning style.
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    sauf

    English

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
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