oe

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "oe"

English

Etymology 1

From Swedish ö and Danish ø. Doublet of ey.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /oʊ/^[1]
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əʊ/^[1]
Rhymes: -əʊ
Homophones: o, oh, owe

Noun

oe (plural oes)

(literary or poetic, rare) A small island.
- 1817, [Walter Scott], “Canto Third”, in Harold the Dauntless; , Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; and Archibald Constable and Co., , →OCLC, stanza X.2, page 97:
  I love my father's northern land, / Where the dark pine-trees grow, / And the bold Baltic's echoing strand / Looks o'er each grassy oe.

Etymology 2

From Scottish Gaelic ogha.

Pronunciation

(Scotland, Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ɔɪ/^[1]
Rhymes: -ɔɪ
Homophone: oy

Noun

oe (plural oes)

A grandchild.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933. (oe "island", oe, oy, "grandchild")

Anagrams

E O, E&O, EO, Eo, eo-

Ambonese Malay

Interjection

oe

hello, hi
Oe, pi mana?
Hello, where are you heading?

References

D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia‎, Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

French

Etymology

From a pronunciation spelling of ouais.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /wɛʔ/

Interjection

oe

(Internet slang, text messaging) yeah, yh

Galician

Verb

oe

inflection of oír:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

Japanese

Romanization

oe

Rōmaji transcription of おえ

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish aue, from Primitive Irish ᚐᚃᚔ (avi), from Proto-Celtic *awyos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewh₂yos (“grandfather”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /oː/

Noun

oe m or f (genitive singular oe, plural oeghyn)

grandchild

Derived terms

aa-oe

References

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úa, óa, ó”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Muna

Noun

oe

water

References

René Van Den Berg, A Grammar of the Muna Language (1989)

Nungon

Noun

oe

woman

Further reading

Hannah Sarvasy, A Grammar of Nungon: A Papuan Language of Northeast New Guinea (2017, →ISBN

Sardinian

Alternative forms

oje, oze (Nuorese)
oi (Campidanese)

Etymology

From Latin hodiē.

Adverb

oe

(Logudorese, Nuorese) today

Scots

Etymology

From Scottish Gaelic ogha, odha.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/, /oe/, /oi/

Noun

oe (plural oes)

(archaic) grandchild (especially illegitimate)
- 1833, John Galt, The Howdie: An Autobiography,
  She tellt me that she wis afeart her oe haed brocht hame her wark, an that she daedna doot they wad be needin the slicht o ma haund.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Termanu

Noun

oe

water

Turkish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /oe/,

Noun

oe (definite accusative oeyi, plural oeler)

(chiefly Internet) Acronym of orospu evladı (son of a bitch).

Uab Meto

Noun

oe

water

Further reading

James J. Fox, The Poetic Power of Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian (→ISBN, 2006): "Many carry the affix “oe” as part of the name. Oe is a Meto word meaning water."; cf ABVD

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