soo

soo (plural soos)

1. (UK, dialectal) Alternative form of sow.

• “soo” in the Lancashire dialect, John Collier, 1822

soo (not comparable)

1. Elongated form of so.

• soo wee

• OOS, Oso, oos

From Proto-Finnic *soo (compare Finnish suo) but unknown beyond that. Possibly from Proto-Uralic *toxi (“lake”), the irregular development *t → *s may have been motivated by avoidance of homonymy with the pronoun too.

soo (genitive soo, partitive sood)

1. swamp

• raba
• lodu

soo

1. genitive singular of sugu

• so

From Swedish så (usually repeated like in Finnish, så-så).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoː/, [ˈs̠o̞ː]
• Rhymes: -oː
• Syllabification^(key): soo

soo

1. (often repeated) tsk, tut-tut (expression of disapproval or holding back)

   Soo soo, ei vielä.

   Tut-tut, not yet.

Most often repeated twice.

• “soo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

soo

1. first-person singular present indicative of soar
2. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of soer

From Proto-Finnic *soo. Cognates include Finnish suo and Estonian soo.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈsoː/, [ˈs̠oː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈsoː/, [ˈʃo̝ː]
• Rhymes: -oː
• Hyphenation: soo
• Homophone: suu

soo

1. swamp
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 47:

     Mis olliit soot ja metsät suuret,

     Where there were swamps and large forests,

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 66
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 542

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

soo (verbal noun soo, past participle sooit)

1. to soak, soak up, suck, extract
2. to preserve
3. to imbibe, tipple, sip
4. to sap
5. to jam
6. to blot (as paper)

• so-hoo

soo m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. verbal noun of soo
2. blotting, absorption
3. suction, sucking, soaking
4. tippling
5. exhaustion
6. extraction

From Middle Irish sub, from Old Irish suib (“strawberry”), from Proto-Celtic *subi.

soo m (genitive singular soo, plural sooghyn)

1. berry

• soo crouw
• soo thallooin

From Proto-Khasian *saːw, an innovation of the Khasian branch. Cognate with Khasi saw.

• IPA^(key): /so/

soo

1. (cardinal number) four

• Homophone: sou-o
• Hyphenation: so‧o

soo

1. first-person singular present indicative of soar

ShengNation (http://www.sheng.co.ke/kamusi/?word_id=1116) suggests: Derived from the English adverb "So" and related to things being "so big". Its use in denoting a Hundred Shillings stemmed from the fact that for a long time, the largest denomination in Kenya was the 100 Shilling note. It was not until 1986 that a larger 200 Shillings note was introduced.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

soo (needs class)

1. (Kenya, slang) hundred shilling

From Proto-Finnic *soo.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈsoː/, [ˈsoː]
• Rhymes: -oː
• Hyphenation: soo

soo

1. marsh

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn