sii

Aiwoo

Noun

sii

1. fish

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• si, siin, sinh, ŝchi

Etymology

From Middle High German sin, from Old High German sīn (“to be”) (with some inflections from Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to be”) and *beuną (“to be, exist, become”)), from Proto-Indo-European *es-, *h₁es- (“to be, exist”). Cognate with German sein.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siː/

Verb

sii (third-person singular simple present isch, past participle gsii, past subjunctive weer, auxiliary sii)

1. to be
   • 1978, Rolf Lyssey and Christa Maerker, Die Schweizermacher (transcript):

     Wänn sind Si s'letscht Mal dunde gsi?

     When were you last down there?

2. (auxiliary, taking a past participle) to have (used in forming the perfect tense)

   Coordinate term: haa

Conjugation

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) , Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 85.

Aukan

Etymology 1

From Sranan Tongo siri (“seed”), from English seed.

Noun

sii

1. seed
2. fruit
3. a grain of rice
4. pill

Etymology 2

Ideophone

sii

1. Signifies gliding gently on water

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sii, from Proto-Uralic *śiŋe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiː/,
• Rhymes: -iː
• Syllabification^(key): sii

Noun

sii

1. Synonym of siihirsi

Declension

Derived terms

Anagrams

• -isi-, isi

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.i/
  • Rhymes: -ii
  • Hyphenation: sì‧i
• (Rome) IPA^(key): /ˈsi/^*
  • Rhymes: -i

Verb

sii

1. second-person singular imperative of essere

References

Latin

Noun

siī

1. genitive singular of sion

Njyem

Noun

sii

1. genet

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian sidza, sedza, sega, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną. Cognate with West Frisian sizze, Danish sige.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /siː/

Verb

sii (present sii, 2 sg. sairst, 3 sg. sair, past sair, perfect sair)

1. (Sylt) to say

Northern Ohlone

Noun

sii

1. water

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈsij/

Pronoun

sii

1. they (more than two of them)

Inflection

See also

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Rama

Noun

sii

1. water

References

• Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, volume 29

Romanian

Verb

a sii (third-person singular present siește, past participle siit) 4th conj.

1. Obsolete form of sfii.

Conjugation

References

• sii in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Somali

Verb

sii

1. to give

Spanish

Etymology

Presumably from si and after English iff.

Conjunction

sii

1. (mathematics) iff

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:sii.

West Makian

Etymology

Cognate with Ternate isi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s̪iː/

Noun

sii

1. urine

Verb

sii

1. (intransitive) to urinate

Conjugation

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics