soie

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”).

• IPA^(key): /swa/

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

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)

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

• oies

soie f

1. plural of soia

• Iosè, iseo

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

soie (verbal noun soiaghey)

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

• fo-hoie
• roie-hoie

• seie

From Latin seta, saeta.

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

1. silk

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