soie

French

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /swa/

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• Homophones: soi, soient, soies, sois, soit

Noun

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

• herbe à soie
• mousseline de soie
• peau de soie
• route de la soie
• soie dentaire
• soyeux
• ver à soie

Descendants

• → English: soy

Further reading

• “soie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• oies

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.je/
• Rhymes: -ɔje
• Hyphenation: sò‧ie

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

soie f

1. plural of soia

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Determiner

soie f pl

1. (Old Italian) alternative form of sue, feminine plural of suo
   • 1350s, anonymous author, “Como frate Venturino venne a Roma colle palommelle e dello campanile de Santo Pietro lo quale fu arzo. [About how fra Venturino came to Rome with doves, and about the bell tower of St. Peter that was burned down]” (chapter 6), in Cronica [Chronicle]‎^[1] (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:

     uno frate predicatore, lo quale avea nome frate Venturino de Bergamo de Lommardia, dello ordine de santo Domenico, commosse con soie predicazioni devote la maiure parte de Lommardia (Romanesco)

     a preacher, who was named fra Venturino from Bergamo in Lombardy, of the Order of Saint Dominic, moved the larger part of Lombardy with his devout preachings

Anagrams

• Iosè, iseo

Manx

Etymology

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

Verb

soie (verbal noun soiaghey)

1. to set, settle, set up
2. to plant, implant, seat, situate
3. to determine, fix, synchronize
4. to let

Derived terms

• fo-hoie
• roie-hoie

Mutation

Mutation of soie

radical	lenition	eclipsis
soie	hoie after "yn", toie	unchanged

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

Old French

Alternative forms

• seie

Etymology

From Latin seta, saeta.

Noun

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

1. silk

Descendants

• Middle French: soye
  • French: soie
• Norman: souaie