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soo (plural soos)

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

soo (not comparable)

  1. Elongated form of so.

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

soo

  1. genitive singular of sugu

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

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

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

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,
Declension of soo (type 8/maa, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative soo soot
genitive soon soijen
partitive soota soita
illative sooho soihe
inessive soos sois
elative soost soist
allative soolle soille
adessive sool soil
ablative soolt soilt
translative sooks soiks
essive soonna, soon soinna, soin
exessive1) soont soint
1) obsolete
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.
  • V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎[2], 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)

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)

  2. berry
Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
soo hoo
after "yn", too		 unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
Pnar cardinal numbers
 <  3 4 5  > 
    Cardinal : soo
    Ordinal : wa soo

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

soo

  1. (cardinal number) four

soo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of soar
This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “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.”

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
Declension of soo (type I/maa, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative soo sood
genitive soo soijõ
partitive sootõ soitõ
illative sohho, sohosõ soisõ
inessive sooz soiz
elative soossõ soissõ
allative soolõ soilõ
adessive soollõ soillõ
ablative sooltõ soiltõ
translative soossi soissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive.
***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.
  • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn