sih

Cayuga

Adverb

sih

1. over there

References

• Marianne Mithun, Reginald Henry (1982) Wadęwayę́stanih - A Cayuga Teaching Grammar, 3rd edition, Woodland Cultural Centre, published 2015, page 97

Navajo

Etymology

∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -sih (“hope”, noun stem used as a verb stem)

Noun

sih

1. hope, mercy
2. a chance
3. life

Verb

sih

1. (with bił) to be satisfied with it

Conjugation

Paradigm: Momentaneous (∅/yi), third person only.

Related terms

• hasih

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sik, from Proto-Germanic *sek, whence also Old Saxon sik, Old Norse sik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s̠ix/

Pronoun

sih

1. self

Inflection

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle High German: sich
  • Bavarian: si, sich
    • Cimbrian: zich
  • Central Franconian: sich, sech
    • Hunsrik: sich
    • Luxembourgish: sech
  • East Central German: sich
    • Zipser German: ßich
  • German: sich
  • Yiddish: זיך (zikh)
  • → Middle Low German: sik, sek (adapted to native mik, dik)
    • Low German: sik, sek, sük

Slovak

Etymology

Probably from Russian сиг (sig).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

sih m anim

1. whitefish (fish of the genus Coregonus)

Further reading

• “sih”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024