sí

From Latin sīc.

sí

1. yes (word used to indicate agreement or acceptance)

Inherited from Latin sīc.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia)

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• Rhymes: -i
• Homophone: si

sí

1. yes (affirmation; commonly used to respond affirmatively to a question)

   Synonym: hoc

sí

1. the opposite of 'not'

   Synonym: hoc

   No parles català? – Sí que el parlo!

   Do you not speak Catalan? – I do speak it !

• Sí is used to add positive emphasis to the verb, much like the auxiliary do in affirmative sentences in English. It generally contrasts with a previous no, and is placed in the same location within the sentence. This is a usage the word shares with Spanish.

• no

• si

• “sí” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “sí”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “sí” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi/
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: sí

From Old Galician-Portuguese si (“yes”), from Latin sīc (“thus, so”), from Proto-Indo-European *so (“this, that”).

sí

1. yes

From Old Galician-Portuguese si, from Latin sibi, from Proto-Indo-European *sébʰye.

sí

1. Reflexive prepositional pronoun; oneself, himself, herself, itself, themselves, yourself; each other, one another

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

sí

1. imperative of síggja: behold

sí

1. on the ground

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• Rhymes: -ʃiː

Borrowed from German Schi (“ski”), originally from Norwegian ski (“ski”).

sí (plural sík)

1. ski

• síel

An onomatopoeia (sound imitation).

sí

2. (archaic) to howl, cry, whiz, shriek, screech, shrill^[1]

   Synonyms: sivít, visít, sikít, vijjog, rikolt, sikolt, süvít

• sír

• (ski): sí in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (to howl, cry): sí in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Old Norse sí-, from Proto-Germanic *sin-.

• IPA^(key): /siː/
• Rhymes: -iː

sí

1. always

• alltaf, ávallt, sífelllt, æ, ætíð

• sí og æ (“always, permanently, continually”)

• IPA^(key): /ʃiː/

From Middle Irish side, from Old Irish síd, from Proto-Celtic *sīdos (“mound (inhabited by fairies); peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *sēds, from *sed- (“to sit”). Doublet of síth.

• sidhe, síodh (superseded)

sí m (genitive singular sí, nominative plural síthe)

1. fairy mound, tumulus

From Old Irish sí, from Proto-Celtic *sī, from Proto-Indo-European *sih₂.

sí (emphatic form sise, conjunctive)

1. she
2. it (referring to a feminine noun)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 65
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 síd, síth (‘fairy mound’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

sí

1. foot, paw

• IPA^(key): /sʲiː/

From Proto-Celtic *sī (compare Welsh hi), from a blend of Proto-Indo-European *só (“this”) + *íh₂.

sí

1. she

   Sí fri gábud condon·fóir.

   May she protect us against danger.

2. it (referring to a feminine noun)

   Is sí thol Dée.

   It is God's will.

• sissi (emphatic)

• Irish: sí
• Manx: ee
• Scottish Gaelic: i

See síi.

sí

1. Alternative spelling of síi

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi/

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• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: sí
• Homophone: si

Inherited from Latin sīc (est).

sí

1. yes (commonly used to respond affirmatively to a question)

   Synonyms: claro, por supuesto, (colloquial, Mexico, Guatemala) simón, (colloquial) sip

   Antonyms: no, (colloquial, Mexico) nel

2. A syntactic marker for emphasis or to replace an earlier verb, allowing the speaker to avoid repeating the verb, both similar to English do

   Antonym: no

   "Les gusta el chocolate, ¿verdad?" "A mí sí, pero a él no."

   "You both like chocolate, right?" "I do, but he doesn't."

3. (Spain) hello (used to answer the telephone)

• As an emphasis or pro-verb, this term has in Spanish a usage that is not usually explicitly translated into English, since it could sound like a pleonasm, being that "positively", "affirmatively", and always related to a negation (explicit or not):
  • Él sí puede, yo no

    He (positively) can, I cannot.

  • Esto sí es una fiesta.

    This sure is a party. / This is what I call a party.

  • No sabemos si es sostenible, pero lo que sí sabemos es que funciona muy bien.

    We don't know if it's sustainable, but what we do know is that it works very well.

sí m (plural sís or síes)

1. yes; aye, ay; approbation, acceptance

   Ganaron los síes.

   The ayes have it.

Inherited from Latin sibi, from Proto-Indo-European *sébʰye, dative of *swé (“self”). Cognate with French soi, Italian sé, and Portuguese si.

sí

1. himself, herself, itself, themselves, yourself, yourselves (form of se used after prepositions)

   para sí ― for himself/herself/itself/themselves/yourself/yourselves

• si

• “sí”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28