FromSwedishö andDanishø.Doublet ofey.
oe (pluraloes)
- (literary or poetic, rare) Asmallisland.
1817,[Walter Scott], “Canto Third”, inHarold the Dauntless; […], Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. forLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; andArchibald Constable and Co., […],→OCLC, stanza X.2,page97:I love my father's northern land, / Where the dark pine-trees grow, / And the bold Baltic's echoing strand / Looks o'er each grassyoe.
FromScottish Gaelicogha.
oe (pluraloes)
- Agrandchild.
oe
- hey
Oe, pi mana?- Hey, where are you heading?
- D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998),Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia[1], Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa
From apronunciation spelling ofouais.
oe
- (Internetslang, text messaging)yeah,yh
oe
- inflection ofoír:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
oe
- Rōmaji transcription ofおえ
FromOld Irishaue,[1] fromPrimitive Irishᚐᚃᚔ(avi), fromProto-Celtic*awyos, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂ewh₂yos(“grandfather”).
oe m orf (genitive singularoe,pluraloeghyn)
- grandchild
- ^Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úa, óa, ó”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^Christopher Lewin (2020),Aspects of the historical phonology of Manx, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh,→DOI, page70
oe
- water
- René Van Den Berg,A Grammar of the Muna Language (1989)
oe
- woman
- Hannah Sarvasy,A Grammar of Nungon: A Papuan Language of Northeast New Guinea (2017,→ISBN
FromLatinhodiē.
oe
- (Logudorese, Nuorese)today
FromScottish Gaelicogha,odha.
oe (pluraloes)
- (archaic)grandchild (especially illegitimate)
- 1833,John Galt,The Howdie: An Autobiography,
She tellt me that she wis afeart heroe haed brocht hame her wark, an that she daedna doot they wad be needin the slicht o ma haund.- (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
Relaxed pronunciation ofoye.
- IPA(key): /ˈoe/[ˈo.e]
- Rhymes:-oe
- Syllabification:o‧e
oe
- (Peru, Chile, colloquial)hey!
oe
- water
oe (definite accusativeoeyi,pluraloeler)
- (vulgar, Internetslang, text messaging)initialism oforospu evladı(son of a bitch)
- Alternative forms:OE,œ
- Yutamayacağını bildiğin lokmayı neden yedin? Niye yaptınO.E? ―Why did you knowingly bit off more than you could chew? Why did you do it [you]son of a bitch
2025 March 10, @okelydokelyy,Twitter[2]:Zır deli hayatsız biroe maalesef. Ciddiye almayın, engelleyip geçiniz.- She's a lifeless lunaticson of a bitch unfortunately. Do not take her seriously, just block and go on with your day.
2024 February 4, @yafesin__kilici,Twitter[3]:Sorsan şeriat isteroe- If you ask him he would want shariason of a bitch
2023 February 4, @notselect3d,Twitter[4]:ders programını ayarlayankimse onjn ben amk 5 dersi 5 gune nasıl yaydins enoe- Whoever made the class schedule fuck you how did you manage to spread 5 classes over 5 days [you]son of a bitch
oe
- water
- James J. Fox,The Poetic Power of Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian (→ISBN, 2006): "Many carry the affix “oe” as part of the name. Oe is a Meto word meaning water."; cfABVD
