soy

soy · noun, adjective, verb¹

1. Chinese醬油 /酱油o
2. Japanese醤油
3. Japaneseそや
4. Dutchsoja
5. English todaysoy

1670s; borrowed from Dutch soja, from the Satsuma pronunciation of Japanese 醤油 (soi), variant of the standard Japanese 醤油 (shōyu). Doublet of shoyu, orthographic borrowing from Middle Chinese 醬油 (tsjàng-yuw), from 醬 (tsjangᴴ, “bean paste”) + 油 (“oil”).

soy · noun²

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*séh₂ito-
2. Proto-Italic · derived from*saitā
3. Latin · derived fromsēta
4. Old French · derived fromsoie
5. Middle French · derived fromsoye
6. French · borrowed fromsoie“silk”
7. English todaysoy

Borrowed from French soie (“silk”), soye, 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”). Doublet of seta.

Soy · proper noun³

1. Turkish · borrowed fromSoy
2. Khmer · borrowed fromសយ“mane”
3. English todaySoy

Various origins: * Borrowed from Khmer សយ (sɑɑy, “mane”), probably a nickname. * Probably a clipping of Soya, a surname of Kashmiri origin. * Borrowed from Turkish Soy, a nickname from soy (“ancestry, lineage, descent”).

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