different between sony vs sory

English

Noun

sony

1. Alternative spelling of sonny
   • 1837, Abigail Goodrich Whittelsey and Samuel Whittelsey, The Mother's Magazine, S. Whittelsey

     He often would say, ‘My father will not come from Washington time enough to see his sony.'

Anagrams

• Yons, nosy, noys, syno, syon

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s?n?]

Noun

sony

1. nominative plural of son
2. accusative plural of son

English

Etymology

Latin sory, from Ancient Greek ???? (sôru, “a kind of ore”).

Noun

sory (uncountable)

1. (chemistry, obsolete) green vitriol, or some earth impregnated with it

Anagrams

• Syro-, rosy, roys

Middle English

Alternative forms

• sori, sari, særi, sorry, soory, sary, sari?

Etymology

From Old English s?ri?, from Proto-Germanic *sairagaz. Equivalent to sore +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??ri?/

Adjective

sory (plural and weak singular sorye, comparative sorier, superlative soriest)

1. sad, sorrowful
   1. painful, distressful
   2. sorry, remorseful, regretful
2. pitiful, downtrodden, dismal:
   1. cheap, low-quality
   2. luckless; cheated by fate
3. iniquitous, malicious; having bad intentions

Derived terms

• sorinesse
• soryly

Descendants

• English: sorry
  • ? Scots: sorry, sorra
• Scots: sairy

References

• “s?r?, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-09.

Adverb

sory

1. (rare) harshly, intensely; with extreme force
2. (rare) sadly; while upset

References

• “s?r?, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-09.