different between straightway vs soon

English

Etymology 1

straight +? way

Alternative forms

• straightaway

Pronunciation

Noun

straightway (plural straightways)

1. A straight section of a racetrack.

Etymology 2

From straight +? way. First attested in the sense of "directly".

Adverb

straightway (not comparable)

1. (dated) Synonym of straightaway or straight away (at once, immediately).
   • 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 547:

     Now one day of the days, […] the Sultan cast his eyes upon her as she stood before him, and said to his Grand Wazir, "This be the very woman whereof I spake to thee yesterday, so do thou straightway bring her before me, that I may see what be her suit and fulfil her need."

   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:

     This made her angrier than before, and she blew her silver whistle twice. Straightway a great flock of wild crows came flying toward her, enough to darken the sky.

2. Directly. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English soone, sone, from Old English s?na (“immediately, at once”), from Proto-West Germanic *s?n(?), from Proto-Germanic *s?na, *s?nô (“immediately, soon, then”), from *sa (demonstrative pronoun), from Proto-Indo-European *só (demonstrative pronoun).

Cognate with Scots sone, sune, schone (“soon, quickly, at once”), North Frisian san (“immediately, at once”), dialectal Dutch zaan (“soon, before long”), Middle Low German sân (“right afterwards, soon”), Middle High German s?n, son (“soon, then”), Old High German s?r (“immediately, soon”). Compare also Gothic ???????????????? (suns, “immediately, soon”), from Proto-Germanic *suniz (“soon”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: so?on, IPA^(key): /su?n/
• Rhymes: -u?n

Adjective

soon (comparative sooner, superlative soonest)

1. Short in length of time from the present.

   I need the soonest date you have available.

2. (US, dialect) early
   • 1992, W. H. Andrews: A Paul Green Reader, p 129:

     Late in the evening we arrived at Quincy where we bivouacked for the night and taken a soon start the next morning to march to the arsenal.

   • 1997, Dorothy Stanaland Samuel, Taliaferro Leslie Samuel: The Samuell/Samuel Families of Tidewater Virginia, p 148:

     Got up pretty early, ate a soon breakfast, had the sulky and was about to start to Newtown when it commenced raining..

   • 2000, Laurence G. Avery: A Paul Green Reader, p 220:

     They were different from colored folks who had to be out to get a soon start.

Adverb

soon (comparative sooner, superlative soonest)

1. (obsolete) Immediately, instantly.
2. Within a short time; quickly.
3. (now dialectal) Early.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Exodus 2:18,^[1]

     How is it that ye are come so soon to day?

   • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, 1978, Chapter 6, p. 87,^[2]

     “Been huntin’ fuh mah mule. Anybody seen ’im?” he asked.

     “Seen ’im soon dis mornin’ over behind de school-house,” Lum said. “’’Bout ten o’clock or so. He musta been out all night tuh be way over dere dat early.”

4. Readily; willingly; used with would, or some other word expressing will.
   • 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian No. 101

     I would as soon see a river winding through woods or in meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical figures at Versailles.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• soon at OneLook Dictionary Search
• soon in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• noos, noso-, onos, oons, sono-

Bavarian

Alternative forms

• sogn (Sappada, Sauris)

Etymology

From Old High German sag?n, from Proto-West Germanic *saggjan, from Proto-Germanic *sagjan?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek?-.

Compare Low German seggen, Dutch zeggen, English say, Danish sige, Swedish säga.

Verb

soon

1. (Timau) to say

References

• “soon” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sooni, from Proto-Uralic *sëne. Cognates include with Finnish suoni, Mansi ???? (t?n) andHungarian ín (“sinew”).

Noun

soon (genitive soone, partitive soont)

1. vein, blood vessel

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Wolof

Etymology

From French jaune.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??n/

Verb

soon

1. to be yellow