soo

soo (plural soos)

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

• “soo” in the Lancashire dialect, John Collier, 1822

soo (not comparable)

1. Elongated form of so.

• soo wee

• OOS, Oso, oos

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

• raba
• lodu

soo

1. genitive singular of sugu

• so

From Swedish så (usually repeated like in Finnish, så-så).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoː/, [ˈs̠o̞ː]
• Rhymes: -oː
• Hyphenation^(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”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

soo

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

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

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈsoː/, [ˈs̠oː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈsoː/, [ˈʃo̝ː]
• Rhymes: -oː
• Hyphenation: soo
• Homophone: suu

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)

• so-hoo

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

• soo crouw
• soo thallooin

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

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Cardinal : soo     Ordinal : wa soo

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

• IPA^(key): /so/

soo

1. (cardinal number) four

• Homophone: sou-o
• Hyphenation: so‧o

soo

1. first-person singular present indicative of soar

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