oe

From Swedish ö and Danish ø. Doublet of ea.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əʊ/
• Homophones: o, oh, owe

oe (plural oes)

1. (literary or poetic, rare) A small island.
   • 1817, Sir Walter Scott, Harold the Dauntless, canto III:

     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.

• E&O, EO, Eo, eo-

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

• “úa, óa, ó” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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

From Latin hodiē.

oe

1. 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