oie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wa/

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• Homophones: houa, houas, houât, oient, oies, ois, oit, ouah

Etymology 1

From Old French oie, oe, oue, from Vulgar Latin *auca, contraction of *avica, from Latin avis (“bird”). Compare Italian, Spanish and Catalan oca, Franco-Provençal ôye, Occitan and Romansch auca, Friulian ocje.

Etymology 2

Further reading

• “oie” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

From Old Irish aidche and aidchi, the oblique forms of adaig, from earlier *adekʷī or *adekī, of unknown origin; possibly cognate with Latin āter (“dark”) or Sanskrit अन्ध (andha, “blind”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic oidhche.

Pronunciation

• (Northern Manx) IPA^(key): [ɛi]
• (Southern Manx) IPA^(key): [iː]

Noun

oie f (genitive singular oie, plural oieghyn)

1. night

Alternative forms

• oe
• oue

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *auca, contraction of *avica, from Latin avis (“bird”).

Noun

oie f (oblique plural oies, nominative singular oie, nominative plural oies)

1. goose (bird)

Interjection

oie

1. Alternative form of oiê