different between oes vs ies

English

Noun

oes

1. (rare) plural of o, the name of the letter O.
   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, The Epic

     Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes, / Deep-chested music.

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Masques and Triumphs

     The Colours, that shew best by Candlelight, are; White, Carnation, and a Kinde of Sea-Water-Greene; And Oes, or Spangs, as they are of no great Cost, so they are of most Glory.

Anagrams

• -ose, E&Os, Eos, OSE, SEO, SOE, Seo, Soe, soe

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Southern Dutch oest (Flemish and Zeelandic form of oogst), from Middle Dutch oest, from Old French aoust, from Latin augustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /us/

Noun

oes (plural oeste)

1. harvest

Galician

Verb

oes

1. second-person singular present indicative of oír

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?oes/, [?o.es]

Noun

oes

1. plural of o

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /o???s/
• (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /?i?s/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /o?s/, /we?s/

Etymology 1

Cognate with English "if is", German "ob ist". Probably Celtic "op is" with the p disapearing giving "o is".

Verb

oes

1. (in a question) is there; are there.
2. (in answer to a question beginning with oes) yes.

Etymology 2

From Old Welsh ois, from Proto-Brythonic *o?s, from Proto-Celtic *aissom, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ey- (“life, age”). Ultimately cognate with Welsh oed, Latin aevus.

Noun

oes f (plural oesoedd)

1. age, period

Derived terms

• ers oes oesoedd (“from the beginning of time”)
• goroesi (“to survive, outlast”)
• yr Oesoedd Canol (“the Middle Ages”)
• yn oes oesoedd (“for ever and ever”)

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “oes”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
• Matasovi?, Ranko (2009) , “*ay-sso-, *ay-to-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ?ISBN, page 51

English

Noun

ies

1. (rare) plural of i, the name of the letter I.

Anagrams

• -ise, -sie, EIS, EIs, ESI, I'se, ISE, sei, sie

Aromanian

Verb

ies (third-person singular present indicative iasi/iase, past participle ishitã)

1. Alternative form of es

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *iz. Cognate with Gothic ???????? (is), German er.

Pronoun

ies

1. he
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:

     Ies Varthata. Ille fecit.

Esperanto

Etymology

From i- (indeterminate correlative prefix) +? -es (correlative suffix of genitives).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ies/
• Hyphenation: i?es
• Rhymes: -ies

Pronoun

ies (plural ies, accusative singular ies, accusative plural ies)

1. someone's (indeterminate correlative of genitives)

Derived terms

• ies ajn (“anyone's”)
• iesa?o (“property, s.t. belonging to s.o.”)

Finnish

Etymology

From earlier *ikes, borrowed from Old East Slavic ??? (igo) (gen. ??? (iga), *????? (*ižese)), from Proto-Slavic *j?go (gen. *j?ga, *j?žese), from earlier *j?go (gen. *j?ga, *j?gese), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *juga-, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ie?s/, [?ie??s?]
• Rhymes: -ies
• Syllabification: ies

Noun

ies

1. yoke
2. (figuratively) yoke, restraint, burden, load; repression, slavery, oppression, persecution, tyranny

   ikeen alla = under the yoke

Declension

Synonyms

• (yoke, restraint, burden, load): taakka, kuorma, pakko
• (oppression, persecution, repression, slavery, tyranny): sorto, orjuus

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) , “???”, in Etimologi?eskij slovar? russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Oleg Truba?óv, Moscow: Progress

Anagrams

• eis, esi-, sei, sie

Latvian

Verb

ies

1. 3rd person singular future indicative form of iet
2. 3rd person plural future indicative form of iet

Old French

Verb

ies

1. second-person singular imperfect indicative of estre

Romanian

Verb

ies

1. first-person singular present indicative of ie?i
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of ie?i
3. third-person plural present indicative of ie?i

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan) oss
• (Surmiran) òss
• (Puter, Vallader) öss

Etymology

From Latin ossum, popular variant of os.

Noun

ies m

1. (Sursilvan) bone

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian ?s, from Proto-Germanic *?s?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i??s/

Noun

ies c (plural iezen)

1. bait

   Synonym: lokies

2. carrion

Derived terms

• lokies