soi
See also: Appendix:Variations of "soi"
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
soi (plural soi or sois)
- In Thailand, a side-street branching off a major street; an alley or lane.
- 2019, The Mysterious Case of the Missing Tuk-Tuk, Zach J Brodsky, Brodsky Press, Chapter 2:
- When a motorbike sped too fast down their little side street, [...] Daeng and Nat would be revisiting many ranting conversations they'd had about motorbikes treating this tiny soi like it was the highway.
- 2019, The Mysterious Case of the Missing Tuk-Tuk, Zach J Brodsky, Brodsky Press, Chapter 2:
Translations edit
a side-street branching off a major street in Thailand
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Asturian edit
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soi
Bourguignon edit
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soi m (plural sois)
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Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Inversion | Reflexive | Accusative (direct complement) |
Dative (indirect complement) |
Disjunctive (tonic) |
Locative (at) |
Genitive (of) |
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Singular | First | — | i (rarely je) | -je | me, m’ | moi | — | — | ||
Second | — | tu, t' | -tu | te, t’ | toi | — | — | |||
Third | Masculine | ai, before vowels el | -ti | se, s’ | le, l’ | lu | lu | y | en | |
Feminine | ale | la, l’ | lei | |||||||
Neuter | çai | -ce | çai | çai, çan | — | — | ||||
— | an | -an | — | — | soi | — | — | |||
Plural | First | — | i (rarely je) | -je | nos | — | — | |||
Second | — | vos | -vos | vos | — | — | ||||
Third | Masculine | ai, before vowels el | -ti | se, s’ | les | lor | lor | y | en | |
Feminine | ales |
Brokskat edit
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soi
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Etymology edit
From Middle High German sein, sīn, from Old High German sīn, from Proto-West Germanic *sīn, from Proto-Germanic *sīnaz (“his, hers, its, their own”). Cognate with German sein.
Determiner edit
soi
References edit
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
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soi
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soi
- inflection of soida:
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French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French sei, accented form of se, from Latin sē (in accented position), from Proto-Indo-European *swé (reflexive pronoun). More at se. Cognate with Italian sé, Portuguese si, Spanish sí.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
soi
- (rare) nominative pronoun reinforcing indefinite or very generalized subject; one
- (more commonly) Designating or reinforcing a reflexive (direct) object or the regime of a preposition
- Near-synonym: soi-même
- Pourquoi ne pense-t-on qu’à soi ? ― Why do people only think of themselves?
- (dated) himself, herself, itself
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French personal pronouns
Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Accusative (direct complement) |
Dative (indirect complement) |
Disjunctive (tonic) |
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Singular | First | — | je, j’ | me, m’ | moi | |
Second | — | tu | te, t’ | toi | ||
Third | Masculine | il | le, l’ | lui | lui | |
Feminine | elle | la, l’ | elle | |||
Gender neutral5 | iel | lea | ellui | |||
Indeterminate | on1 | — | — | — | ||
Reflexive | — | se, s’4 | soi4 | |||
Plural | First | — | nous | nous | nous | |
Second | — | vous2 | vous2,3 | vous2 | ||
Third | Masculine | ils3 | les | leur | eux | |
Feminine | elles | elles | ||||
Gender neutral5 | iels | elleux |
- 1 Also used as the first person plural.
- 2 Also used as the polite singular form.
- 3 Also used when a group has both men and women.
- 4 Also used as third person plural reflexive.
- 5 Colloquial, and not in popular use.
Further reading edit
- “soi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish صوی (soy), from Common Turkic *soy.
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soi n (plural soiuri)
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soi
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soi
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soi
- (Chile) second-person singular voseo present indicative of ser; you are
Vietnamese edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [sɔj˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʂɔj˧˧] ~ [sɔj˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʂɔj˧˧] ~ [sɔj˧˧]
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Vietic *k-lɔːl (“to gaze at one's own reflection”) (Ferlus).
Verb edit
- to flash (light); to illuminate; to light; to give light to
- to look at one's image in (a mirror)
- soi gương ― to look at oneself in the mirror
- to candle (e.g. an egg)
- to see closely (under a microscope, magnifier, etc.); to examine
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Derived terms
Etymology 2 edit
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soi
- (archaic) accomplished; experienced; well-versed in
West Makian edit
Pronunciation edit
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soi
- Alternative form of sowi (“smoke”)
References edit
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[1], Pacific linguistics