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soi

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English

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Etymology

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From Thai ซอย (sɔɔi).

Noun

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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.

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Asturian

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Verb

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soi

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ser

Bourguignon

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Etymology 1

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From Latin serus.

Noun

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soi m (plural sois)

  1. evening
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Etymology 2

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From Latin se.

Pronoun

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soi

  1. one (reflexive pronoun)
  2. oneself
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      Bourguignon personal pronouns
Number Person Gender Nominative
(subject) 		Inversion Reflexive Accusative
(direct complement) 		Dative
(indirect complement) 		Disjunctive
(tonic) 		Locative
(at) 		Genitive
(of)
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

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Pronoun

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soi

  1. he

Cimbrian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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soi

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

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Finnish

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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

Verb

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soi

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

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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

Verb

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soi

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

Etymology 3

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Pronunciation

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

Verb

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soi

  1. third-person singular past indicative of suoda

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French

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Etymology

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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.

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Pronoun

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soi

  1. 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
  2. (rare) nominative pronoun reinforcing indefinite or very generalized subject; one
  3. (dated) himself, herself, itself

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French personal pronouns
Number Person Gender Nominative
(subject) 		Accusative
(direct complement) 		Dative
(indirect complement) 		Locative
(at) 		Genitive
(of) 		Disjunctive
(tonic)
Singular First — je, j’ me, m’ — — moi
Second — tu te, t’ — — toi
Third Masculine il le, l’ lui y en lui
Feminine elle la, l’ elle
Indeterminate on1 — — — — —
Reflexive — se, s’4 — — soi4
Plural First — nous nous — — nous
Second — vous2 vous2,3 — — vous2
Third Masculine ils3 les leur y en eux3
Feminine elles elles
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.

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Italian

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Verb

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soi

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

Japanese

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Romanization

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soi

  1. Rōmaji transcription of そい

Occitan

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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soi

  1. first-person singular present indicative of èsser

Old French

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Alternative forms

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

Pronoun

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soi

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

Usage notes

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  • 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).

Romanian

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Etymology

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

Noun

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soi n (plural soiuri)

  1. breed, kind, ilk, species, variety, race
    Synonyms: rasă, castă, neam, clasă

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative soi soiul soiuri soiurile
genitive-dative soi soiului soiuri soiurilor
vocative soiule soiurilor

Sassarese

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Adjective

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soi

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

Pronoun

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soi

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

Spanish

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soi

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

Vietnamese

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Etymology 1

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

Verb

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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
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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soi • (𪤠)

  1. alluvial island (in a river)

Etymology 3

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Compare sõi, sỏi.

Adjective

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soi

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

West Makian

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Noun

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soi

  1. Alternative form of sowi (“smoke”)

References

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  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[1], Pacific linguistics
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