FromOld Irishso-,su-(“good”),^[1] fromProto-Celtic*su-, fromProto-Indo-European*h₁su-. Cognate withWelshhy-(“very, easy to”),Ancient Greekεὖ(eû),Sanskritसु-(su-).Doublet ofeo-.

so-

1. very(positive or neutral)

   Synonyms:dea-,deas,maith

2. X-able,easy to X

   Synonym:furasta

• This affix in Irish is added to adjectives denoting attributes of ability as well as positive attributes. Itlenites the word to which it attaches.
• When it meansvery,so- acts like an adverb:

  ‎so- + ‎blasta(“tasty”) → ‎so-bhlasta(“very tasty”)

• When it means-able,so- acts like a plain affix:

  ‎so- + ‎briste(“broken”) → ‎sobhriste(“breakable”)

  ‎so- + ‎déanta(“done”) → ‎sodhéanta(“doable”)

• do-
• ró-

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “so-”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN

FromLatinsub-(“under”).

• IPA^(key): /so/
• Hyphenation:so-

so-

1. under,beneath

   ‎so- + ‎gola(“throat”) → ‎soggolare(“to fit with awimple”)

   ‎so- + ‎reggere(“to bear; to hold”) → ‎sorreggere(“to support, sustain”)

2. used in the formation of verbs where the root action isattenuated

   ‎so- + ‎friggere(“to fry”) → ‎soffriggere(“to fry slowly with moderate heat”)

   ‎so- + ‎bollire(“to boil”) → ‎sobbollire(“to simmer”)

   ‎so- + ‎fermare(“to stop”) → ‎soffermare(“to linger”)

• It always causesgemination of an initial single consonant.

FromOld Irishso-,su-.^[1]

so-

1. X-able,easily Xed

• su-

FromProto-Celtic*su-, fromProto-Indo-European*h₁su-. Cognate withWelshhy-(“very, easy to”),Ancient Greekεὖ(eû),Sanskritसु-(su-).

so- (triggers lenition of a following term)

1. good,excellent

   ‎so- + ‎cor(“contract”) → ‎sochar(“good contract”)

   ‎so- + ‎cenél(“kindred”) → ‎sochenéuil(“well-born”)

2. X-able,easy to X

   ‎so- + ‎atrab(“inhabiting”) → ‎suaitribthide(“habitable”)

   ‎so- + ‎cosc(“correction”) → ‎sochoisc(“docile”)

3. very

   ‎so- + ‎cairdech(“friendly”) → ‎sochairdech(“very friendly”)

• do-

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 so, su”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940)D. A. Binchy andOsborn Bergin, transl.,A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies,→ISBN,§ 365, page231; reprinted2017

FromLatinsub-.^[1][2]Doublet ofsub-.

so-

1. sub-(under, beneath)

   Synonym:sub-

Inherited fromProto-Slavic*sǫ-.

so-

1. con-,co-(with, together, jointly)

• IPA^(key): /so/[so]
• Syllabification:so-

so-

1. sub-

   Synonym:sub-

• “so-”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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