soe

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

Translingual

Symbol

soe

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Songomeno.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Songomeno terms

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

Achang

Pronunciation

• (Myanmar) /sɯ˧/

Noun

soe

1. matter

Further reading

• Inglis, Douglas; Sampu, Nasaw; Jaseng, Wilai; Jana, Thocha (2005), A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎, Payap University, page 120

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