soe

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophones: seau, sew, so, soh, sow (sense 2)

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

• Eos, Seo, oes, -ose, OSE, OES, OES., ESO, SEO, E&Os, OEs

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su/

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, Venetan soga, Albanian shokë, French suage, Portuguese and Spanish soga.

Noun

soe f (plural sois)

1. (strong or thick) rope

   Synonym: cuarde

2. (nautical) stay

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈsoe]
• Hyphenation: soé

Adjective

soé

1. (colloquial) bad luck.

   Synonym: sial

Further reading

• “soe” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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

• IPA^(key): /zuə/, /zu/

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈso.e]

Verb

soe

1. (stative) to be unlucky

Conjugation

Conjugation of soe

		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		tosoe	fosoe	misoe
2nd person		nosoe	nisoe
3rd person	masculine	osoe	isoe yosoe (archaic)
	feminine	mosoe
	neuter	isoe

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.