oe

From Swedish ö and Danish ø. Doublet of ey.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /oʊ/[1]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əʊ/[1]
• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophones: o, oh, owe

oe (plural oes)

1. (literary or poetic, rare) A small island.
   • 1817, [Walter Scott], “Canto Third”, in Harold the Dauntless; […], Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza X.2, page 97:

     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.

From Scottish Gaelic ogha.

• (Scotland, Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ɔɪ/[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔɪ
• Homophone: oy

oe (plural oes)

1. A grandchild.

• E O, E&O, EO, Eo, eo-

oe

1. hello, hi

   Oe, pi mana?

   Hello, where are you heading?

• D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia‎, Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

From a pronunciation spelling of ouais.

• IPA^(key): /wɛʔ/

oe

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) yeah, yh

oe

1. inflection of oír:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Old Irish aue, 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

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “úa, óa, ó”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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

• oje, oze (Nuorese)
• oi (Campidanese)

From Latin hodiē.

oe

1. (Logudorese, Nuorese) 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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

oe

1. water

oe (definite accusative oeyi, plural oeler)

1. (chiefly Internet) Acronym of orospu evladı (son of a bitch).

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