soie

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French soye, from Old French soie, earlier seie, from Latin sēta, saeta, from Proto-Italic *saitā, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ito-, *sh₂éyto-, from *sh₂ey-, *seh₂i- (“to bind”).

Pronunciation

Noun

soie f (plural soies)

  1. silk
    cri de la soie
    a description of the sound of rubbing a rough knitted silken necktie against itself
  2. bristle
  3. tang (of a blade)

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Italian

Noun

soie f

  1. plural of soia

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Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish saidid. Cognate to Irish suigh and Scottish Gaelic suidh.

Verb

soie (verbal noun soiaghey)

  1. to set, settle, set up
  2. to plant, implant, seat, situate
  3. to determine, fix, synchronize
  4. to let

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Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
soie hoie
after "yn", toie		 unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin seta, saeta.

Noun

soie oblique singular, f (oblique plural soies, nominative singular soie, nominative plural soies)

  1. silk

Descendants

  • Middle French: soye
  • Norman: souaie
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