oe

From Swedish ö and Danish ø. Doublet of ea.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /oʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əʊ/
• Rhymes: -oʊ, -əʊ
• Homophones: o, oh, owe

oe (plural oes)

1. (literary or poetic, rare) A small island.
   • 1817, [Walter Scott], “Canto Third”, in Harold the Dauntless; […], Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], OCLC 962439993, stanza X.2, page 97:

     I love my father's northern land, / Where the dark pine-trees grow, / And the bold Baltic's echoing strand / Looks o'er each grassy oe.

From Scottish Gaelic ogha.

• IPA^(key): /ɔɪ/, /oi/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪ, -oi
• Homophone: oy

oe (plural oes)

1. A grandchild.

• E O, E&O, EO, Eo, eo-

oe

1. hello, hi

   Oe, pi mana?

   Hello, where are you heading?

• D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia‎, Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

oe

1. third-person singular present indicative of oír
2. second-person singular imperative of oír

From Old Irish úa, from Primitive Irish ᚐᚃᚔ (avi), from Proto-Celtic *awyos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewh₂yos (“grandfather”).

oe m or f (genitive singular oe, plural oeghyn)

1. grandchild

• aa-oe

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “úa, óa, ó”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

oe

1. water

• René Van Den Berg, A Grammar of the Muna Language (1989)

oe

1. woman

• Hannah Sarvasy, A Grammar of Nungon: A Papuan Language of Northeast New Guinea (2017, →ISBN

• oje, oze (Nuorese)
• oi (Campidanese)

From Latin hodiē.

oe

1. (Logudorese, Nuorese) today

From Scottish Gaelic ogha, odha.

• IPA^(key): /o/, /oe/, /oi/

oe (plural oes)

1. (archaic) grandchild (especially illegitimate)
   • 1833, John Galt, The Howdie: An Autobiography,

     She told me that she was afraid her oe had brought home her wark, and that she didna doubt they would need the sleight of my hand.

oe

1. 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."; cf ABVD