sue

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• /suː/
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• rhymes with -uː
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• homophone: sou
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• homophone: Su
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• homophone: sue (yod-dropping)
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• /sjuː/
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• Wales: /sɪu̯/
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• /suː/ yod-dropping
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• /ʃuː/ yod-coalescence, rare
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• homophone: Sioux
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• homophone: Sue (yod-dropping)
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• homophone: shoe
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• homophone: shoo (yod-coalescence)
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• CMU ARPABET: S UW1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Clipping.

From Middle English seuen, sewen, siwen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suer, siwer et al. and Old French sivre (“to follow after”) (modern French suivre), from Vulgar Latin *sequere (“to follow”), from Latin sequi. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Doublet of segue. Related to suit.

78 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 蘇 /苏 (Sū) — diminutive of female given name
• Esperanto: Sunjo — diminutive of female given name
• Japanese: スー (Sū) — diminutive of female given name
• Korean: 수 (Su) — diminutive of female given name
• Russian: Сью (Sʹju) — diminutive of female given name
• Welsh: Siw — diminutive of female given name
• Albanian: padit — to file a legal action
• Arabic: قَاضَى (qāḍā) — to file a legal action
• Azerbaijani: məhkəməyə vermək — to file a legal action
• Bulgarian: завеждам дело (zaveždam delo) — to file a legal action
• Burmese: တရားစွဲ (ta.ra:cwai:) — to file a legal action
• Chinese Mandarin: 起訴 /起诉 (qǐsù) — to file a legal action
• Czech: žalovat — to file a legal action
• Danish: lægge sag an — to file a legal action
• Danish: sagsøge — to file a legal action
• Danish: stævne — to file a legal action
• Dutch: aanklagen — to file a legal action
• Esperanto: persekuti — to file a legal action
• Faroese: saksøkja — to file a legal action
• Faroese: lógsøkja — to file a legal action
• Finnish: nostaa kanne — to file a legal action
• Finnish: haastaa oikeuteen — to file a legal action
• French: poursuivre en justice — to file a legal action
• French: intenter un procès à — to file a legal action
• Georgian: ჩივილი (čivili) — to file a legal action
• Georgian: უჩივლა (učivla) — to file a legal action
• German: verklagen — to file a legal action
• German: klagen — to file a legal action
• Greek: μηνύω (minýo) — to file a legal action
• Hebrew: תבע (tavá) — to file a legal action
• White Hmong: foob — to file a legal action
• Hungarian: beperel — to file a legal action
• Hungarian: perel — to file a legal action
• Hungarian: perbe fog — to file a legal action
• Icelandic: lögsækja — to file a legal action
• Indonesian: menuntut — to file a legal action
• Irish: agair — to file a legal action
• Italian: fare causa — to file a legal action
• Italian: citare in giudizio — to file a legal action
• Japanese: 訴える (uttaeru) — to file a legal action
• Khmer: ប្ដឹង (pdəng) — to file a legal action
• Khmer: ផ្ដៀង (phdiəng) — to file a legal action
• Korean: 고소하다 (gosohada) — to file a legal action
• Ladin: dé sëura — to file a legal action
• Lao: ຟ້ອງ (fǭng) — to file a legal action
• Latin: lītigō — to file a legal action
• Latin: lītem inferō — to file a legal action
• Norwegian Bokmål: saksøke — to file a legal action
• Norwegian Nynorsk: saksøkja — to file a legal action
• Norwegian Nynorsk: saksøkje — to file a legal action
• Norwegian Nynorsk: saksøka — to file a legal action
• Norwegian Nynorsk: saksøke — to file a legal action
• Polish: pozywać — to file a legal action
• Polish: pozwać — to file a legal action
• Portuguese: processar — to file a legal action
• Portuguese: demandar — to file a legal action
• Romanian: da în judecată — to file a legal action
• Russian: подава́ть в суд (podavátʹ v sud) — to file a legal action
• Russian: предъявля́ть иск (predʺjavljátʹ isk) — to file a legal action
• Russian: суди́ться (sudítʹsja) — to file a legal action
• Scottish Gaelic: tagair — to file a legal action
• Slovene: tožiti — to file a legal action
• Spanish: demandar — to file a legal action
• Spanish: querellarse — to file a legal action
• Spanish: pleitear — to file a legal action
• Swedish: stämma — to file a legal action
• Swedish: lagföra — to file a legal action
• Tagalog: hablahin — to file a legal action
• Tagalog: maghabla — to file a legal action
• Tagalog: idemanda — to file a legal action
• Tagalog: magdemanda — to file a legal action
• Thai: ฟ้อง (fɔ́ɔng) — to file a legal action
• Thai: ฟ้องร้อง (fɔ́ɔng-rɔ́ɔng) — to file a legal action
• Tibetan: ཁྲིམས་ལ་བསྐྱལ (khrims la bskyal) — to file a legal action
• Tok Pisin: kotim — to file a legal action
• Turkish: mahkemeye vermek — to file a legal action
• Vietnamese: thưa kiện — to file a legal action
• Vietnamese: kiện — to file a legal action