# sou
## Translingual
### Symbol

sou
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Southern Thai.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Southern Thai terms

## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French sou. Doublet of sol, sold, soldo, solid, solidus, and xu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /suː/
* Homophone: sue

### Noun

sou (plural sous)
* (historical) An old French copper coin equal to one twentieth of a livre or twelve deniers; one sou is to the livre as one shilling is to the pound.
** 1918 February (date written), Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Je ne parle pas français”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 73:He is grey, flat-footed and withered, with long, brittle nails that set your nerves on edge while he scrapes up your two sous.
* (dated, slang) Cent; pocket money.
* (dated) A thing of the smallest value; a whit; a jot.
    I do not care a sou for your excuses.

### Anagrams

* USO, U&Os, OSU, -ous, ous

## Afrikaans
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sœu/

### Verb

sou
* preterite of sal; would, should

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan sou~sol, from Late Latin soldus, contraction of Latin solĭdus. Doublet of sòlid. Compare French sou.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsɔw]
* Rhymes: -ɔw

#### Noun

sou m (plural sous)
* salary, wage
    Synonym: salari
    tinc un sou de 1200 euros ― I have a salary of 1200 euros

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsow]
* Rhymes: -ow

#### Verb

sou
* second-person plural present indicative of ser
* second-person plural present indicative of ésser

### Etymology 3

Inherited from Old Catalan sou (feminine sua), from Latin suum, from Proto-Italic *sowos, from Proto-Indo-European *sewos, from *swé (“self”).

#### Alternative forms

* seu (non-Algherese dialects)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsow]
* Rhymes: -ow

#### Pronoun

sou (feminine sua, masculine plural sous, feminine plural sues)
* (Alghero) your, yours (singular, alluding to vostè)
* (Alghero) his, her/hers, its
* (Alghero, archaic, rare) their, theirs

##### Usage notes

* In contemporary Algherese, this word primarily gives reference to vostè. Only rarely does it give reference to multiple possessors, this use being archaic.

##### Descendants

* Catalan: seu
* Sicilian: sou, sua, soi, so'

#### See also

* son

#### References

* “sou (2)”, in Diccionari d'Alguerés, 2022 May 17 (last accessed)
* El Català de l'Alguer : un model d'àmbit restringit, Barcelona, 2003, →ISBN, page 30

#### Further reading

* “sou” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “sou” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Folopa
### Noun

sou
* Alternative form of so

### References

* Karl James Franklin, Pacific Linguistics (1973, →ISBN, page 130: Polopa so/sou woman, cf. DAR sou female animal but we woman.
* Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 15: Boro, Suri, Tebera sou, Sopese šo

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French, inherited from Late Latin soldus, from Latin solidus. Doublet of solide. See also the form sol, which kept the historical spelling from Old French, even if it came to be pronounced like sou.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /su/
** Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -u
* Homophones: sous, saoul, saouls (and their alternative spellings)

### Noun

sou m (plural sous)
* (historical, numismatics) sou (old French coin)
* (by extension, chiefly in the plural, colloquial) money; cash
    Tu peux me prêter des sous ? ― Can you lend me some cash?
* (Quebec, Louisiana, colloquial) cent (one hundredth of a dollar)
    Ça va être six piastres et vingt-cinq sous, s’il te plaît. ― That'll be six dollars and twenty-five cents, please.

#### Derived terms

* machine à sous
* ne pas avoir un sou
* pas pour deux sous
* pas pour un sou
* près de ses sous
* propre comme un sou neuf
* sans le sou
* trente sous

#### Related terms

* sol
* solide
* soudard
* souder

#### Descendants

* → English: sou
* Louisiana Creole: sou

#### See also

* chelin
* livre

### Further reading

* “sou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Galician
### Verb

sou
* (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of ser

## Haitian Creole
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /su/

### Preposition

sou
* on
* about, concerning
** 2019 March 19, “Rankont ann Itali ant Anvwaye Espesyal Etazini ak Larisi sou Kriz Venezuela a”, in Lavwadlamerik‎:Anvwaye espesyal Etazini pou Venezuela, Elliot Abrams, ak vis-minis afè etranjè Larisi, Sergei Ryabkov, ap fè reyinyon nan vil Wòm ann Itali pou yo pale sou sityasyon Venezuela kap agrave.”American Special Envoy for Venezuela Elliot Abrams and Russian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Ryabkov are meeting in the city of Rome, Italy to talk about "the worsening situation in Venezuela."

## Iu Mien
### Etymology

From Chinese 書 (MC syo). Compare Bu-Nao Bunu hswb.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /səu˧/

### Noun

sou
* book

## Japanese
### Romanization

sou
* Rōmaji transcription of そう

## Leonese
### Etymology

From Latin sum.

### Verb

sou
* first-person singular present indicative of sere

## Lindu
### Noun

sou
* house; home

## Livonian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *savu, from Proto-Finno-Permic *sawe. Cognates include Finnish savu.

### Noun

sou
* smoke

## Louisiana Creole
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /su/
* Rhymes: -u

### Etymology 1

Inherited from French saoul (“drunk”).

#### Adjective

sou
* drunk
    Synonyms: chak, ho, piké

### Etymology 2

Inherited from French sou (“sou, cent”).

#### Noun

sou
* (money) (a) cent
    Synonym: pinné

## Luxembourgish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /zəʊ/ (basic form)
* IPA: /zu/ (reduced)
* Rhymes: -əʊ

### Adverb

sou
* Alternative form of esou

## Mandarin
### Romanization

sou (sou$^5$ / sou$^0$, Zhuyin ˙ㄙㄡ)
* Nonstandard spelling of sōu.
* Nonstandard spelling of sǒu.
* Nonstandard spelling of sòu.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Mirandese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈso(w)/

### Verb

sou
* first-person singular present of ser

## Old Catalan
### Etymology

From Latin suum.

### Adjective

sou (feminine sua, masculine plural sous, feminine plural sues)
* his, her, its, their
    Synonym: son

#### Descendants

* Catalan: seu

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* sô (Brazil, nonstandard)

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin sum (“I am”). Cognate with Galician son, Spanish soy, Italian sono, French suis, and Romanian sunt.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈso(w)/ [ˈso(ʊ̯)]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈso(w)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈso(w)/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈsow/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ˈso/
* Rhymes: -ow, -o
* Hyphenation: sou

### Verb

sou
* first-person singular present indicative of ser
** 2007, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e as Relíquias da Morte [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows] (Harry Potter; 7), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 589:Sou excepcionalmente famoso.I am exceptionally famous.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French sou.

### Noun

sou n (plural souuri)
* (coin) sou

#### Declension
## Sardinian
### Alternative forms

* suu
* suo

### Etymology

From Latin suus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsou/

### Pronoun

sou (plural suos, feminine sua, feminine plural suas)
* his, her, hers

#### Related terms

* meu
* tuu/tou/tuo
* nostru
* bostru/vostru
* issoro

## Sassarese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsou/

### Determiner

sou (feminine singular soa, plural soi)
* Alternative form of sóiu

### Pronoun

sou m (feminine singular soa, masculine and feminine plural soi)
* Alternative form of sóiu

### References

* Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈso.u/

### Noun

sou
* medicine

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## West Makian
### Etymology

Likely cognate with Ternate sou (“medicine”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈs̪o.u/

### Noun

sou
* magic, sorcery

### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics (as sow)

## Zhuang
### Etymology

Cognate with Proto-Southwestern Tai *suːᴬ (“you (plural)”); whence Thai สู (sǔu), Northern Thai ᩈᩪ, Isan สู, Lao ສູ (sū), Lü ᦉᦴ (ṡuu), Tai Dam ꪎꪴ, Shan သူ (sǔu), Tai Nüa ᥔᥧᥴ (sú), Ahom 𑜏𑜥 (sū).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Zhuang) IPA: /θou˨˦/
* Tone numbers: sou$^1$
* Hyphenation: sou

### Pronoun

sou (Sawndip forms 𠈅 or 修 or 收 or 苏 or 唆 or 数 or 𠉑 or 叟 or ⿰亻祖 or ⿰亻初 or 傃, 1957–1982 spelling sou)
* you (plural)

#### See also
### References

* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 古壮字字典 [Dictionary of Old Zhuang Characters] (in Chinese), Guangxi: Ethnic Publishing House (广西民族出版社), 2012, →ISBN