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French
Pronunciation
Noun
soeur f (plural soeurs)
- Nonstandard spelling of sœur.
Usage notes
- The œ ligature is often replaced in contemporary French with oe (the œ character does not appear on AZERTY keyboards), but this is nonstandard.
Further reading
Anagrams
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French suer, from Latin soror.
Noun
soeur f (plural soeurs)
- sister
Descendants
Norman
Etymology
From Old French suer, from Latin soror, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.
Noun
soeur f (plural soeurs)
- (Guernsey) sister