soif

From Old French soif, from Early Old French seif, seit, from Latin sitis, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰítis (“perishing, destruction, decrease”). The -f seems to have been a way to distinguish this word from other words that came to be pronounced as IPA^(key): /swa/, such as soit.

• IPA^(key): /swaf/

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soif f (plural soifs)

1. thirst

• assoiffer
• avoir soif

• Esperanto: soifi, soifo

• fois

• “soif” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• sai
• sef
• seif
• seyf
• soi

From Latin sitis.

soif m or f

1. thirst

• French: soif