soe

soe

See also: Soe, SOE, sôe, so'e, and s.ö.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophones: seau, sew, so, soh, sow (sense 2)

Etymology 1

From Middle English sō (“large tub, vat”), from Old English sā (“a tub, pail, vessel”) and/or Old Norse sár (“large cask”) (acc. s.sá), both from Proto-Germanic *saihaz (“bucket, vat”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyk- (“to reach, grasp”). Cognate with Swedish så (“large wooden water vessel”).

Noun

soe (plural soes)

1. (obsolete) a large wooden vessel for carrying water, especially one to be carried on a pole between two people.
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 55:

     "... no more then a Pump grown dry will yield any water, unless you pour a little water into it first, and then for one Bason-ful you may fetch up so many Soe-fuls".

Conjunction

soe

1. Obsolete form of so.
   • 1830, Christopher Merrett, letter to Thomas Browne

     Many of the lupus piscis I have seen, and have bin informed by the king's fishmonger they are taken on our coast, but was not satisfied for some reasons of his relation soe as to enter it into my Pinax […]

Anagrams

• -ose, E&Os, Eos, OES, OES., OSE, SEO, Seo, oes

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su/

Adverb

soe

1. (Western Cape) Alternative form of so.

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Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *sooja, borrowed from an Iranian language (compare Persian سایه‎ (sāya, “shadow, shelter”)). Komi-Zyrian сай (saj, “shelter”) and Eastern Mari шойылч (šojylč, “from behind”) may have the same origin. Cognate to Finnish suoja and Votic soojõ (“warm, warmth”).

Adjective

soe (genitive sooja, partitive sooja, comparative soojem or soem, superlative kõige soojem or kõige soem)

1. warm

Declension

Declension of soe (type tühi)

	singular	plural
nominative	soe	soojad
genitive	sooja	soojade
partitive	sooja	soojasid / sooje
illative	soojasse / sooja	soojadesse / soojesse
inessive	soojas	soojades
elative	soojast	soojadest
allative	soojale	soojadele
adessive	soojal	soojadel
ablative	soojalt	soojadelt
translative	soojaks	soojadeks
terminative	soojani	soojadeni
essive	soojana	soojadena
abessive	soojata	soojadeta
comitative	soojaga	soojadega

Noun

soe

1. genitive singular of susi

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Friulian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin, Late Latin soca, of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *soucā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sew- (“to bend, to cut, to drive”), see also Sanskrit सुवति (suvati).[1]

Compare Romansch suga, suja, soua, sua, Venetian soga, Albanian shokë, French suage, Portuguese and Spanish soga.

Noun

soe f (plural sois)

1. (strong or thick) rope

   Synonym: cuarde

2. (nautical) stay

References

1. Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, p. 558

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Hokkien 衰 (soe, “to have poor luck”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsoe]
• Hyphenation: soé

Adjective

soé

1. (colloquial) bad luck.

   Synonym: sial

Further reading

• “soe” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Middle Dutch

Adverb

soe

1. Alternative spelling of sô

Conjunction

soe

1. Alternative spelling of sô

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch *suo, from Proto-Germanic *sō, originally the feminine demonstrative pronoun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zuə/, /zu/

Pronoun

soe

1. (Flemish) Alternative form of si (“feminine singular”)

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Portuguese

Verb

soe

1. inflection of soar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

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Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈso.e]

Verb

soe

1. (stative) to be unlucky

Conjugation

Conjugation of soe
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	tosoe	fosoe	misoe
2nd	nosoe	nisoe
3rd	Masculine	osoe	isoe, yosoe†
Feminine	mosoe
Neuter	isoe
† - archaic

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

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Tetum

Verb

soe

1. to throw

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West Frisian

Verb

soe

1. would (modal verb) (see sille)

   Ik soe it mar dwaan as ik dy wie.

   I would have done it if I were you.