oes

See also: Oes, OEs, OES, OES., -ões, ös, öš, and -ös

English

Noun

oes

1. plural of oe
2. (rare) plural of o, the name of the letter O.
   • 1840, Brandon Turner, A new English grammar, page 230:

     A, aes; Bee, Bees; Cee, Cees; Dee, Dees; E, Ees; Eff, Effs; Gee, Gees; Aitch, Aitches; I, Ies; Jay, Jays; [...] En, Ens; O, Oes; Pee, Pees; Kue, Kues; Ar, Ars; […] Wy, Wies; Zed, Zeds.

   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, The Epic:

     Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes, / Deep-chested music.

   • 1856, Goold Brown, The First Lines of English Grammar, page 10:

     These names […] may form regular plurals; thus, Aes, Bees, Cees, Dees, Ees, Effs, Gees, Aitches, Ies, Jays, Kays, Ells, Ems, Ens, Oes, Pees, Kues, Ars, Esses, Tees, Ues, Vees, Double-ues, Exes, Wies, Zees.

   • 1860, Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars: With an Introduction, Historical and Critical, page 154:

     [It] is desirable [...] that we may have a shorter and simpler term in stead of Double-u. [...] Dr. Webster [...] is not yet tired of his experiment with "oo;" but thinks still to make the vowel sound of this letter its name. Yet [...] If W is to be named as a vowel, it ought to name itself, as other vowels do, and not to take two Oes for its written name. Who that knows what it is, to name a letter, can think of naming w by double o?

Noun

oes pl (plural only)

1. (obsolete) Small circle-shaped sequins of precious metal sewn to clothing for decorative effect, popular in the 17th century.
   • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Masques and Triumphs”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

     The Colours, that shew best by Candlelight, are; White, Carnation, and a Kinde of Sea-Water-Greene; And Oes, or Spangs, as they are of no great Cost, so they are of most Glory.

Alternative forms

• owes

Anagrams

• Eos, Seo, soe, Soe, -ose, SOE, OSE, ESO, SEO, E&Os

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Southern Dutch oest (Flemish and Zeelandic form of oogst), from Middle Dutch oest, from Old French aoust, from Latin augustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /us/

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Noun

oes (plural oeste)

1. harvest

Galician

Verb

oes

1. second-person singular present indicative of oír

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoes/ [ˈo.es]
• Rhymes: -oes
• Syllabification: o‧es

Noun

oes

1. plural of o

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /oːɨ̯s/
• (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ɔi̯s/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /oːs/, /weːs/
• Rhymes: -oːɨ̯s

Etymology 1

Proto-Celtic *esti

Verb

oes

1. (in a question) is there; are there?
2. (in answer to a question beginning with oes; in North Wales also to a question involving eisiau) yes

Etymology 2

From Old Welsh ois, from Proto-Brythonic *oɨs, from Proto-Celtic *aissom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- (“life, age”). Ultimately cognate with Welsh oed, Latin aevus.

Noun

oes f (plural oesau or oesoedd)

1. age, period

   Synonym: cyfnod

2. life, lifetime, lifespan

Derived terms

• am oes (“for life”)
• ers oes oesoedd (“from the beginning of time”)
• goroesi (“to survive, outlast”)
• Oes y Cerrig (“Stone Age”)
• Oes yr Efydd (“Bronze Age”)
• Oes yr Haearn (“Iron Age”)
• oes yr iâ (“ice age”)
• oesfyr (“short-lived, ephemeral”)
• yn oes oesoedd (“for ever and ever”)
• yr Oesoedd Canol (“the Middle Ages”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of oes

radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
oes	unchanged	unchanged	hoes

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “oes”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “oes”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
• Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*ay-sso-, *ay-to-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 51