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1961, Joan Lluís, El meu Pallars: El Pallars Sobirà:
Degotalls que s'estimballen des dels cingles fins al riu, i calmosament davallen, sia hivern o sia estiu.
Stalactites that fling themselves from the cliffs into the river, and calmly descend, be it winter or be it summer.
1975, Narcís Xifra i Riera, Montserrat, juliol de 1936:
El cas és que posaren altre cop en pràctica allò de destruir tot el que havien fet els altres, ja sia bo o dolent, i es complagueren amb la revenja […]
The thing is that they reimplemented that destruction of everything that others had made, whether it be good or bad, and they were pleased with revenge
sia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
“sia”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
From Old Frisiansē, from Proto-West Germanic*saiwi. The distinction between “sea” (feminine) and “lake” (masculine) is based on GermanSee, where it developed through mixing of Low and High German usages. Older North Frisian, like Middle Low German, had only the feminine. There may have been another word for “lake”, although the North Frisian region has no natural lakes of dimensions that would necessitate to distinguish them from ponds etc.
The reduced article a may still be used with the feminine; cf. at for notes. This blurs the gender distinction. Some speakers therefore go a step further and use the Germanized form see for the masculine.
This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not mentioned by Ratliff at all. Maybe related to siv(“sash”) and similar words?”
This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Seems to be considered native Hmongic by Ratliff, though no reconstructed proto-form is given.[1] Same lemma as Etymology 1 (the classifier being "string, strip" suggests a semantic relation)?”