soe

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

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”).

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".

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 […]

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

• IPA^(key): /su/

soe

1. (Western Cape) Alternative form of so

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”).

soe (genitive sooja, partitive sooja, comparative soojem, superlative kõige soojem)

1. warm

soe

1. genitive singular of susi

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).^[1]

Compare Romansch suga, suja, soua, sua, Venetan soga, Albanian shokë, French suage, Portuguese and Spanish soga.

soe f (plural sois)

1. (strong or thick) rope

   Synonym: cuarde

2. (nautical) stay

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

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

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

soé

1. (colloquial) bad luck.

   Synonym: sial

• “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.

soe

1. Alternative spelling of sô

soe

1. Alternative spelling of sô

From Old Dutch *suo, from Proto-Germanic *sō, originally the feminine demonstrative pronoun.

• IPA^(key): /zuə/, /zu/

soe

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

soe

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

soe

1. Variant first-person singular present indicative of èssere

• IPA^(key): [ˈso.e]

soe

1. (stative) to be unlucky

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

soe

1. to throw

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.