soi
See also: SOI, so'i, sói, só͘-í, sôi, söi, sōi, sõi, sồi, sỏi, sởi, sợi, ṣói, and s'oi
English
Etymology
From Thai ซอย (sɔɔi).
Noun
soi (plural soi or sois)
- In Thailand, a side-street branching off a major street; an alley or lane.
- 2019, The Mysterious Case of the Missing Tuk-Tuk, Zach J Brodsky, Brodsky Press, Chapter 2:
- When a motorbike sped too fast down their little side street, [...] Daeng and Nat would be revisiting many ranting conversations they'd had about motorbikes treating this tiny soi like it was the highway.
- 2019, The Mysterious Case of the Missing Tuk-Tuk, Zach J Brodsky, Brodsky Press, Chapter 2:
Translations
a side-street branching off a major street in Thailand
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Anagrams
- IOs, ISO, Ios, OIs, OSI, iOS, ios, iso, iso-
Asturian
Verb
soi
- first-person singular present indicative of ser
Bourguignon
Etymology 1
From Latin serus.
Noun
soi m (plural sois)
- evening
Synonyms
- vesprôt
Etymology 2
From Latin se.
Pronoun
soi
- one (reflexive pronoun)
- oneself
Related terms
Bourguignon personal pronouns| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) | Inversion | Reflexive | Accusative (direct complement) | Dative (indirect complement) | Disjunctive (tonic) | Locative (at) | Genitive (of) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | First | — | i (rarely je) | -je | me, m’ | moi | — | — | ||
| Second | — | tu, t' | -tu | te, t’ | toi | — | — | |||
| Third | Masculine | ai, before vowels el | -ti | se, s’ | le, l’ | lu | lu | y | en | |
| Feminine | ale | la, l’ | lei | |||||||
| Neuter | çai | -ce | çai | çai, çan | — | — | ||||
| — | an | -an | — | — | soi | — | — | |||
| Plural | First | — | i (rarely je) | -je | nos | — | — | |||
| Second | — | vos | -vos | vos | — | — | ||||
| Third | Masculine | ai, before vowels el | -ti | se, s’ | les | lor | lor | y | en | |
| Feminine | ales | |||||||||
Brokskat
Pronoun
soi
- he
Cimbrian
Alternative forms
- zain (Sette Comuni)
Etymology
From Middle High German sein, sīn, from Old High German sīn, from Proto-West Germanic *sīn, from Proto-Germanic *sīnaz (“his, hers, its, their own”). Cognate with German sein.
Determiner
soi
- (Luserna) his, her, its, their
References
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsoi̯/, [ˈs̠o̞i̯]
- Rhymes: -oi
- Syllabification(key): soi
Verb
soi
- third-person singular present indicative of soida
- third-person singular past indicative of soida
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsoi̯ˣ/, [ˈs̠o̞i̯(ʔ)]
- Rhymes: -oi
- Syllabification(key): soi
Verb
soi
- present active indicative connegative of soida
- second-person singular present imperative of soida
- second-person singular present active imperative connegative of soida
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsoi̯/, [ˈs̠o̞i̯]
- Rhymes: -oi
- Syllabification(key): soi
Verb
soi
- third-person singular past indicative of suoda
Anagrams
- -iso, iso, iso-, ois
French
Etymology
From Old French sei, accented form of se, from Latin sē (in accented position), from Proto-Indo-European *swé (reflexive pronoun). More at se. Cognate with Italian sé, Portuguese si, Spanish sí.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /swa/
Audio (file) - Homophones: soie, soient, soies, sois, soit
Pronoun
soi
- (rare) nominative pronoun reinforcing indefinite or very generalized subject; one
- (more commonly) Designating or reinforcing a reflexive (direct) object or the regime of a preposition
- Near-synonym: soi-même
- Pourquoi ne pense-t-on qu'à soi ? ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- (chiefly) oneself
- Synonym: soi-même
- Occasionally representing other pronouns, e.g. ourselves, or translated according to the referenced indefinite subject
- (dated) himself, herself, itself
Derived terms
- aller de soi
- amour de soi
- chacun pour soi
- chez-soi
- chez soi
- estime de soi
- hors de soi
- soi-disant
- soi-même
- sûr de soi
Related terms
- seité
See also
French personal pronouns
| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) | Accusative (direct complement) | Dative (indirect complement) | Locative (at) | Genitive (of) | Disjunctive (tonic) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | First | — | je, j’ | me, m’ | — | — | moi | |
| Second | — | tu | te, t’ | — | — | toi | ||
| Third | Masculine | il | le, l’ | lui | y | en | lui | |
| Feminine | elle | la, l’ | elle | |||||
| Indeterminate | on1 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Reflexive | — | se, s’4 | — | — | soi4 | |||
| Plural | First | — | nous | nous | — | — | nous | |
| Second | — | vous2 | vous2,3 | — | — | vous2 | ||
| Third | Masculine | ils3 | les | leur | y | en | eux3 | |
| Feminine | elles | elles | ||||||
- 1 Also used as the first person plural.
- 2 Also used as the polite singular form.
- 3 Also used when a group has both men and women.
- 4 Also used as third person plural reflexive.
Further reading
- “soi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- ois
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɔj/
- Rhymes: -ɔj
- Hyphenation: sòi
Verb
soi
- inflection of soiare:
- second-person singular present indicative
- first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Occitan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsuj/
Verb
soi
- first-person singular present indicative of èsser
Old French
Alternative forms
- sei (Anglo-Norman)
- soy (Anglo-Norman or late Old French)
Pronoun
soi
- third-person singular emphatic pronoun
- himself
- herself
- itself
- oneself
Usage notes
- Similar in terms of usage to modern French soi except it may be used as a personal object pronoun where modern French would use se
- pur ceo qe le roialme est pover et chescun homme est bosoignous de soi trover (modern French uses se trouver).
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish صوى (soy), from Common Turkic *soy.
Noun
soi n (plural soiuri)
- breed, kind, ilk, species, variety, race
Declension
Declension of soi
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) soi | soiul | (niște) soiuri | soiurile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) soi | soiului | (unor) soiuri | soiurilor |
| vocative | soiule | soiurilor | ||
Synonyms
- rasă, castă, neam, clasă
Sassarese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsoi/
Adjective
soi
- masculine/feminine plural of sóiu
- masculine/feminine plural of sou
Pronoun
soi
- masculine/feminine plural of sóiu
- masculine/feminine plural of sou
Spanish
Verb
soi
- (Chile) second-person singular voseo present indicative of ser; you are
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [sɔj˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʂɔj˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʂɔj˧˧] ~ [sɔj˧˧]
Etymology 1
From Proto-Vietic *k-lɔːl (“to gaze at one's own reflection”) (Ferlus).
Verb
soi • (𤐝, 𥋸, , , 𬧾)
- to flash (light); to illuminate; to light; to give light to
- to look at one's image in (a mirror)
- soi gương ― to look at oneself in the mirror
- to candle (e.g. an egg)
- to see closely (under a microscope, magnifier, etc.); to examine
Derived terms
Derived terms
- nội soi
- săm soi
- soi mói
- soi rọi
- soi sáng
- soi xét
- xét soi
Noun
soi • (𪤠)
- alluvial island (in a river)
Etymology 3
Compare sõi, sỏi.
Adjective
soi
- (archaic) accomplished; experienced; well-versed in
West Makian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈs̪o.i/
Noun
soi
- Alternative form of sowi (“smoke”)
References
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours, Pacific linguistics