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/

• Audio:

  (file)

• 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

 

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• oies

Italian

Noun

soie f

1. plural of soia

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

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

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