{
 "id": "soi",
 "type": "word",
 "names": {
  "name": "ซอย soi",
  "th": "ซอย",
  "rtgs": "soi"
 },
 "region": [
  "lanna"
 ],
 "etymology": {
  "root": "ซอย soi — from the verb to slice or cut into strips; a soi is a cut off a main road. Numbered along the road, even numbers on one side and odd on the other; a trok is the level below. Named sois often carry a landowner's name.",
  "tier": "tradition"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "The Bangkok word and the postal one. Every lane on the map that has a number has it because of this system; the ones that have a name instead are older or prouder."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "คำกรุงเทพและคำไปรษณีย์ ทุกซอยบนแผนที่ที่มีเลขมีเพราะระบบนี้ ซอยที่มีชื่อแทนเลขนั้นเก่ากว่าหรือหยิ่งกว่า"
 },
 "word": {
  "th": "ซอย",
  "rtgs": "soi",
  "ipa": "/sɔːj/",
  "standard": "ซอย",
  "standard_rtgs": "soi",
  "gloss": "a side street off a main road, numbered along it",
  "gloss_th": "ซอยแยกจากถนนหลัก",
  "example": "ซอยนิมมานเหมินท์ 1",
  "example_gloss": "Soi Nimmanhaemin 1 — the first cut off Nimman"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "hom",
   "as": "The northern word.",
   "rel": "word"
  },
  {
   "to": "soi-numbering",
   "as": "How the numbers work.",
   "rel": "lane"
  }
 ],
 "tags": [
  "lanna"
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:moradok-lanna-dict",
  "s:wp-northern-thai",
  "s:thwp-soi"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "tradition",
   "source": "s:moradok-lanna-dict"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, in the northern register where it fits; not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "schema": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-21",
 "images": [
  {
   "file": "soi/soi-ban-nanuea-soi-2-street-01.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:Ban Nanuea Soi 2 (street) 01.jpg",
   "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Ban_Nanuea_Soi_2_%28street%29_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
   "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABan_Nanuea_Soi_2_%28street%29_01.jpg",
   "license": "CC0 1.0",
   "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
   "author": "This is Arthur Morganar (RDR2-THR)",
   "credit": "Own work",
   "alt": "Ban Nanuea Soi 2 This is the local street from Thailand. IMG20240923183042.",
   "date": "2024-09-23 18:30:39",
   "primary": true,
   "sha256": "0fe7e8fd32271e4c14a70cad985fc90cc5e9f49253aba49e0ebfb1512b711b9b"
  },
  {
   "file": "soi/soi-chiang-mai-moonmuang-road-soi-7-0001.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:Chiang Mai - Moonmuang Road Soi 7 - 0001.jpg",
   "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Chiang_Mai_-_Moonmuang_Road_Soi_7_-_0001.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
   "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AChiang_Mai_-_Moonmuang_Road_Soi_7_-_0001.jpg",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
   "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/",
   "author": "Stefan Fussan",
   "credit": "Own work - My images are also available on MyPortfolio",
   "alt": "Moonmuang Road Soi 7, Chiang Mai, Thailand",
   "date": "2014-05-23",
   "primary": false,
   "sha256": "187d85f46fa7500f9204abb98ea32217e82965d800fb428108e2c950da0fddf0"
  }
 ],
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "soi-numbering",
   "type": "lane",
   "name": "How a soi gets its number",
   "as": "The word."
  },
  {
   "from": "soi-count",
   "type": "measure",
   "name": "Sois, counted by name",
   "as": "The word."
  },
  {
   "from": "hom",
   "type": "word",
   "name": "ฮ่อม hom",
   "as": "The Bangkok word."
  }
 ]
}