soie

French

Etymology

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/

• soie

  (file)

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

Noun

soie f (plural soies)

1. silk
2. bristle
3. tang (of a blade)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• mousseline de soie
• peau de soie

• soie dentaire
• soyeux
• ver à soie

Further reading

• “soie” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• oies

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Italian

Noun

soie f

1. plural of soia

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Manx

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

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.

Derived terms

• fo-hoie
• roie-hoie

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Old French

Alternative forms

• seie

Etymology

From Latin seta, saeta.

Noun

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

1. silk

Descendants

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