different between sue vs suh

English

Etymology

From Middle English seuen, sewen, siwen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suer, siwer et al. and Old French sivre (“to follow after”) ( > French suivre), from Vulgar Latin *sequere (“to follow”), from Latin sequi. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Doublet of segue. Related to suit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su?/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophones: Sioux, sou, Su, Sue, sew (etymology 2)

Verb

sue (third-person singular simple present sues, present participle suing, simple past and past participle sued)

1. (transitive) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
3. (transitive, falconry, of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.).
4. (transitive, nautical) To leave high and dry on shore.

5. (obsolete, transitive) To court.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To follow.

   • And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, III. iv:

     though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd, / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:sue.

Derived terms

• sue for peace

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• EUS, SEU, UEs, ues, use

References

Ewe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su??/, /su?e?/

Adjective

sue

1. small

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy/
• Homophones: su, suent, sues, sus, sut, sût
• Rhymes: -y

Verb

sue

1. inflection of suer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. feminine singular past participle of savoir

Anagrams

• eus, use, usé

Italian

Etymology

From Latin suae.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: su?e

Adjective

sue

1. his, her, its; plural of sua

Japanese

Romanization

sue

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?su.e/, [?s?u?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?su.e/, [?su??]

Verb

sue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of su?

Noun

sue

1. ablative singular of s?s

Middle English

Noun

sue

1. Alternative form of sowe

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: su?e

Verb

sue

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of suar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of suar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of suar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of suar

Tarantino

Pronoun

sue m (possessive, feminine soje)

1. his

English

Noun

suh

1. Pronunciation spelling of sir.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     "Good-mawnin', suh," he said, lifting his cap politely.

Anagrams

• HUS, Hsu, Hus, SHU, Shu, USH, shu', uhs, ush

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Bosnian, Serbian): s?v

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sux?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sû?x/

Adjective

s?h (definite s?h?, comparative s?š?, Cyrillic spelling ????) (Croatia)

1. dry, dried
2. thin, meagre, slender (of a man)
3. pinched, haggard, gaunt (of a face)
4. withered, sear

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sux?, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *saušas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sú?x/

Adjective

s?h (comparative b?lj s?h, superlative n?jbolj s?h)

1. dry (free from liquid or moisture)

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “suh”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran