soe

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

English

Pronunciation

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".

Etymology 2

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

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

Adverb

soe

  1. (Western Cape) Alternative form of so

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *sooja, borrowed from an Iranian language (compare Persian سایه (sâya, “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, superlative kõige soojem)

  1. warm
Declension
Declension of soe (ÕS type 24e/tühi, length gradation)
singular plural
nominative soe soojad
accusative nom.
gen. sooja
genitive soojade
partitive sooja sooje
soojasid
illative sooja
soojasse 		soojadesse
soojesse
inessive soojas soojades
soojes
elative soojast soojadest
soojest
allative soojale soojadele
soojele
adessive soojal soojadel
soojel
ablative soojalt soojadelt
soojelt
translative soojaks soojadeks
soojeks
terminative soojani soojadeni
essive soojana soojadena
abessive soojata soojadeta
comitative soojaga soojadega

Etymology 2

Noun

soe

  1. genitive singular of susi

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).

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

Galician

Verb

soe

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

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

soé

  1. (colloquial) bad luck.
    Synonym: sial

Further reading

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

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

Pronoun

soe

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

Portuguese

Verb

soe

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

Sardinian

Verb

soe

  1. Variant first-person singular present indicative of èssere

Ternate

Pronunciation

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

Tetum

Verb

soe

  1. to throw

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.
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