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soie.

silk

4 characters1 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/swa/

  1. silk

    feminine
    route de la soie
    ver à soie

  2. bristle

    feminine

  3. tang of a blade

    feminine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French soye, from Old French soie, earlier seie, from Latin sēta, saeta, from Proto-Italic *saitā, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ito-, *sh₂éyto-, from *sh₂ey-, *seh₂i- (“to bind”).

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