siu

Middle High German

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old High German siu, si, from Proto-West Germanic *si(j)u, *sī, from Proto-Germanic *sī.

Alternative forms

• sî, si

Pronoun

siu f

1. she

Inflection

Descendants

• Alemannic German: si
• Bavarian:

  Cimbrian: zi, si; ze

  Mòcheno: si

• German: sie
• Hunsrik: sie
• Luxembourgish: si
• Yiddish: זי (zi)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old High German siu.

Pronoun

siu n pl

1. nominative/accusative neuter plural of ëȥ

Old Danish

Alternative forms

• siv, siw, syu

Etymology

From Old Norse sjau.

Numeral

siu

1. seven

Descendants

• Danish: syv

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *iz and *hiz.

Pronoun

siu

1. she

Declension

Alternative forms

• sia

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: si, sie, soe, so
  • Dutch: zij
    • Afrikaans: sy
  • Limburgish: zie

Further reading

• “siu”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

References

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “zij”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Old Irish

Etymology

Originally the dative of so (“this”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʲiu̯/

Adverb

siu

1. here

   Synonym: sund

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 111^c13

     Is hé ru·fiastar cumachtae inna díglae do·mbi{u}r-siu húa londas, intí du·écigi{gi} is ar trócairi ⁊ censi du·bir-siu forunni siu innahí fo·daimem ré techt innúnn.

     He who will know the power of the punishment which you sg inflict by means of wrath, it is he who will see that it is for the sake of mercy and gentleness that you inflict on us here the things that we suffer before going there.

Determiner

siu

1. Alternative form of so used after the deictic particle í and its derivatives

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 siu, síu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 480, page 303

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *iz and *hiz.

Pronoun

siu f

1. she

Descendants

• Low German: se

Pronoun

siu n pl

1. they

Declension

Descendants

• Low German: se

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• syū

Etymology

From Old Norse sjau, from Proto-Germanic *sebun, from earlier *sebunt, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.

Numeral

siū

1. seven

Descendants

• Swedish: sju

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• sivu

Etymology

From Latin sēbum (“sebum”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiu/
• Hyphenation: si‧u

Noun

siu m (plural sii)

1. fat, sebum

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

siu

1. (transitive) to slice

Conjugation

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh