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Sim as an affirmative response is relatively uncommon in Portuguese. The typical affirmative response in the language consists of repeating the first verb of the question, with a change in person if necessary:
“sim”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Umbrian
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Etymology
Derived from Proto-Italic*sūs. The shift from *ū to *ī in monosyllables is regular in Umbrian, compare frif(“harvest, crop”), pir(“fire”). Cognate with Latinsūs.
Ancillotti, Augusto, Cerri, Romolo (2015) “si”, in Vocabolario dell'umbro delle tavole di Gubbio [Vocabulary of Umbrian and of the Iguvine Tables] (in Italian), page 46
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sūs, sŭis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 603
Buck, Carl Darling (1904) A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary, page 41