Noun: sole
Sample Sentences
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The Caliga was a military Shoe, with a very thick Sole, tied above the instep with leather Thongs. [1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations, page 147:]
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Hast wandred through the world now long a day;Yet ceasest not thy wearie soles to lead [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 9:]
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But the doue found no rest for the sole of her foote, and she returned vnto him into the Arke: […] [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 8:9:]
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The fishermen crowding in the cafés were also waiting for the end of the storm, when the fish, reassured, would rise to the surface after the bait. Soles, hog fish and skate were returning from their nocturnal expeditions. Day was now breaking. [1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], →ISBN, page 3:]
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The rudder remains to be repaired, and is unshipped for the purpose; the sole of it is entirely gone [1842, The Nautical Magazine:]
Nouns inflected like sole
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English sole, soole, from Old English sole, solu. Reinforced by Anglo-Norman sole, Old French sole, from Vulgar Latin *sola (“bottom of the shoe”, also “flatfish”), from Latin solea (“sandal, bottom of the shoe”), from Proto-Indo-European *swol- (“sole”). Cognate with Dutch zool (“sole, tread”), German Sohle (“sole, insole, bottom, floor”), Danish sål (“sole”), Icelandic sóli (“sole, outsole”), Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌻𐌾𐌰 (sulja, “sandal”). Related to Latin solum (“bottom, ground, soil”). More at soil.
2. Compare typologically Russian по́чва (póčva) akin to подо́шва (podóšva). See: Middle English Nouns '
sole', Old English Nouns '
sole', Latin Nouns '
solea', Dutch Nouns '
zool', German Nouns '
Sohle', Danish Nouns '
sål', Icelandic Nouns '
sóli', Gothic Nouns '
𐍃𐌿𐌻𐌾𐌰', Latin Nouns '
solum'.
Verbs referencing "sole"
German Nouns
Sohle.