soi

From Thai ซอย (sɔɔi).

soi (plural soi or sois)

1. 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.

• khao soi

• IOs, ISO, Ios, OIs, OSI, iOS, ios, iso, iso-

soi

1. first-person singular present indicative of ser

From Latin serus.

soi m (plural sois)

1. evening

• vesprôt

From Latin se.

soi

1. one (reflexive pronoun)
2. oneself

soi

1. he

• zain (Sette Comuni)

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.

soi

1. (Luserna) his, her, its, their

• 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoi̯/, [ˈs̠o̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -oi
• Syllabification^(key): soi

soi

1. third-person singular present/past indicative of soida

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoi̯ˣ/, [ˈs̠o̞i̯(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -oi
• Syllabification^(key): soi

soi

1. inflection of soida:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoi̯/, [ˈs̠o̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -oi
• Syllabification^(key): soi

soi

1. third-person singular past indicative of suoda

• -iso, iso, iso-, ois

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.

• IPA^(key): /swa/

• Audio

  (file)

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

soi

1. (rare) nominative pronoun reinforcing indefinite or very generalized subject; one
2. (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?

   1. (chiefly) oneself

      Synonym: soi-même

   2. Occasionally representing other pronouns, e.g. ourselves, or translated according to the referenced indefinite subject
3. (dated) himself, herself, itself

• seité

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

• ois

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔj/
• Rhymes: -ɔj
• Hyphenation: sòi

soi

1. inflection of soiare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuj/

soi

1. first-person singular present indicative of èsser

• sei (Anglo-Norman)
• soy (Anglo-Norman or late Old French)

soi

1. third-person singular emphatic pronoun
   1. himself
   2. herself
   3. itself
   4. oneself

• Similar in terms of usage to modern French soi except it may be used as a personal object pronoun where modern French would use se

  pur ceo qe le roialme est pover et chescun homme est bosoignous de soi trover (modern French uses se trouver).

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish صوی (soy), from Common Turkic *soy.

soi n (plural soiuri)

1. breed, kind, ilk, species, variety, race

   Synonyms: rasă, castă, neam, clasă

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoi/

soi

1. masculine/feminine plural of sóiu
2. masculine/feminine plural of sou

soi

1. masculine/feminine plural of sóiu
2. masculine/feminine plural of sou

soi

1. (Chile) second-person singular voseo present indicative of ser; you are

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [sɔj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʂɔj˧˧] ~ [sɔj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʂɔj˧˧] ~ [sɔj˧˧]

From Proto-Vietic *k-lɔːl (“to gaze at one's own reflection”) (Ferlus).

soi • (𤐝, 𥋸, 󱧽, 󱈗, 𬧾)

1. to flash (light); to illuminate; to light; to give light to
2. to look at one's image in (a mirror)

   soi gương ― to look at oneself in the mirror

3. to candle (e.g. an egg)
4. to see closely (under a microscope, magnifier, etc.); to examine

soi • (𪤠)

1. alluvial island (in a river)

Compare sõi, sỏi.

soi

1. (archaic) accomplished; experienced; well-versed in

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̪o.i/

soi

1. Alternative form of sowi (“smoke”)

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics