oes
English
editNoun
editoes
- plural of oe
- (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
editoes pl (plural only)
- (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.
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editEtymology
editFrom Southern Dutch oest (Flemish and Zeelandic form of oogst), from Middle Dutch oest, from Old French aoust, from Latin augustus.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editoes (plural oeste)
Galician
editVerb
editoes
Spanish
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editNoun
editoes
Welsh
editPronunciation
edit- (North Wales) IPA(key): /oːɨ̯s/
- (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /ɔi̯s/
- (South Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /oːs/, /weːs/
- Rhymes: -oːɨ̯s
Etymology 1
editVerb
editoes
- (in a question) is there; are there?
- (in answer to a question beginning with oes; in North Wales also to a question involving eisiau) yes
Etymology 2
editFrom 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
editoes f (plural oesau or oesoedd)
Derived terms
edit- 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
editradical | soft | nasal | h-prothesis |
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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
edit- 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
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