soie

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French

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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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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)

Derived terms

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Anagrams

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Italian

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Noun

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soie f

  1. plural of soia

Anagrams

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Manx

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Etymology

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

Verb

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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

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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

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin seta, saeta.

Noun

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

  1. silk

Descendants

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  • Middle French: soye
  • Norman: souaie