1. sov - Noun
2. sov - Adjective
(Britain, slang) Pound sterling.
That car of his has got to be worth a few sovs.
(Britain, slang) A sovereign (former gold coin).
SOV
(linguistics) Initialism of subject-object-verb: a language is SOV if a typical sentence has a subject, followed by the object, followed by the verb.
SOV (plural SOVs)
Initialism of single occupancy vehicle.
Classical Latin had a generally verb-final (SOV) but overall quite free word order, with a significant amount of word scrambling and mixing of left-branching and right-branching constructions. Source: Internet
Furthermore, they argued that many of the typological features of the supposed Altaic languages, such as agglutinative morphology and subject–object–verb (SOV) word order, usually simultaneously occur in languages. Source: Internet
However, the structure SC-OC-VbStem (Subject concord, Object concord, Verb stem) found in the "verbal complex" of the SVO Bantu languages suggests an earlier SOV pattern (where the subject and object were at least represented by pronouns). Source: Internet
Bambara is an SOV language and has two (mid/standard and high) tones ; e.g. sa 'die' vs. sá 'snake.' Source: Internet
If the embedded clause is introduced by the transparent conjunction zyi the SOV order changes to SVO. Source: Internet
Polish, An Essential Grammar by Dana Bielec (Routledge, 2007), p. 272 In Turkish where normally SOV is used, SVO can be used to emphasize the verb in some instances. Source: Internet