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Definitions and meaning of is

is

Etymology 1

From Middle English is, from Old English is, from Proto-Germanic *isti (a form of Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to be”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti (“is”). Cognate with West Frisian is (“is”), Dutch is (“is”), German ist (“is”), Afrikaans is (“am, are, is”) Old Swedish är, er, Old Norse er, es.

Pronunciation

(UK, US, Canada, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪz/
(General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɘz/
Rhymes: -ɪz

Verb

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of be
- 2012, Robert Moore, Where the Gold is Buried, a legend of Old Fort Niagara (→ISBN), page 137:
  "It's not two weeks yet," I reminded her, hoping that might somehow cheer her. [...] "Tomorrow is two weeks," Ruth said in a distant voice, staring into the flames.
(now colloquial) Used in phrases with existential there when the semantic subject is a third-person plural.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:is.

Alternative forms

Synonyms

beeth (archaic)
bes (now AAVE)

Derived terms

as-is

Etymology 2

i +‎ -s.

Pronunciation

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /aɪz/
Rhymes: -aɪz

Noun

plural of i
remember to dot your i's

Usage notes

There is some difference of opinion regarding the use of apostrophes in the pluralization of references to letters as symbols. New Fowler's Modern English Usage, after noting that the usage has changed, states on page 602 that "after letters an apostrophe is obligatory." The 15th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style states in paragraph 7.16, "To avoid confusion, lowercase letters ... form the plural with an apostrophe and an s". The Oxford Style Manual on page 116 advocates the use of common sense.

Anagrams

S. I., S.I., SI, Si, Si., si

Afar

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈis/

Pronoun

ís

she
thyself, yourself
himself, herself
(Awash) myself

References

E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “is”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /əs/

Verb

am, are, is (present tense, all persons, plural and singular of wees, to be)
Forms the perfect passive voice when followed by a past participle

Bagusa

Noun

woman

References

Mark Donohue, Syntactic and Lexical Factors Conditioning the Diffusion of Sound Change, Oceanic Linguistics 44 (2005), page 428

Catalan

Noun

plural of i

Cimbrian

Pronoun

(Sette Comuni) Alternative form of es (“it”)

References

“is” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse íss, from Proto-Germanic *īsą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈiːˀs/, [ˈiˀs]
Rhymes: -iːs
Rhymes: -iːˀs

Noun

is c (singular definite isen, plural indefinite is)

(uncountable) ice (water in frozen form)
(uncountable) ice, ice cream (dessert, not necessarily containing cream)
(countable) ice, ice cream (ice dessert on a stick or in a wafer cone)

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɪs/

Verb

third-person singular present indicative of zijn; is, equals
Twaalf min drie is negen — twelve minus three equals nine

Adverb

(informal, dialect) Misspelling of 's.

Anagrams

Gothic

Romanization

Romanization of 𐌹𐍃

Hungarian

Etymology

Doublet of és (“and”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈiʃ]
Rhymes: -iʃ

Adverb

is (not comparable) (clitic)

also, too, as well
Synonyms: szintén, ugyancsak, úgyszintén, éppúgy, (formal; the others are relatively literary in style) szintúgy
even, up to, as much as, as long as
(after an interrogative word) again (used in a question to ask something one has forgotten)

Derived terms

Irish

Etymology 1

From agus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɪsˠ/, /sˠ/

Conjunction

reduced form of agus (“and; as”)
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 1:
  wil nə fatī xō mŭȧ, s dūŕc šē?
  conventional orthography: An bhfuil na fataí chomh maith is dúirt sé?
  Are the potatoes as good as he said?
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 1:
  ə ʒēĺǵə, l̄aurīr ə gūǵə mūn, ńī h-ønn̥̄ ī s ə ʒēlgə š agń̥ə
  conventional orthography: An Ghaeilge a labhraíthear i gCúige Mumhan, ní hionann í is an Ghaeilge seo againne.
  The Irish used in Munster isn’t the same as our Irish.

Etymology 2

From Old Irish is (“is”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɪsˠ/, /sˠ/ (before nouns and adjectives)
IPA^(key): /ʃ/ (before the pronouns é, í, ea, iad)

Particle

Present/future realis copula form
(definition: predicate is indefinite)

(identification: predicate is definite)

(idiomatic noun predicate)

(idiomatic adjective predicate)

(compare Hiberno-English "'Tis I who saw him"; cleft sentence)

(cleft sentence)
Used to introduce the comparative/superlative form of adjectives

Usage notes

Used in the present and future for identification or definition of a subject as the person/object identified in the predicate of the sentence. Sometimes used with noun or adjective predicates, especially in certain fixed idiomatic phrases. Used to introduce cleft sentences, which are extremely common in Irish. It is not a verb.

The copula does not exist in the imperative and does not have a nominal form analogous to the verbal noun. The phrase bí i do (literally “be in your”) is used as the imperative instead (e.g. Bí i d’fhear! – “Be a man!” (lit. “Be in your man!”)), and equivalent non-copular nominal constructions must be used in place of their hypothetical copular equivalents: bheith ábalta (“to be able”, in place of the non-existent nominal form of is féidir), bheith ag iarraidh (“to want”, in place of the non-existent nominal form of is mian), bheith ina (“to be”, as with the imperative), etc.

In comparative/superlative formations, is is strictly speaking the relative of the copula, hence an buachaill is mó literally means "the boy who is biggest", i.e. "the biggest boy". The thing compared is introduced by ná (“than”).

Related terms

Kwerba

Noun

woman

References

Mark Donohue, Syntactic and Lexical Factors Conditioning the Diffusion of Sound Change, Oceanic Linguistics 44 (2005), page 428 (used in both Kwerba proper and Anggreso Kwerba)

Lacandon

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *iihs.

Noun

sweet potato

Derived terms

References

Baer, Phillip; Baer, Mary; Chan Kꞌin, Manuel; Chan Kꞌin, Antonio (2018) Diccionaro maya lacandón (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 51)‎^[3] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 65–66

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *is, from Proto-Indo-European *éy.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /is/, [ɪs̠]
(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /is/, [is]

Determiner

is (feminine ea, neuter id); demonstrative pronoun

(pronoun) this or that man, woman or thing; he, she, it (previously introduced)
1. Picks up the subject or object after an intervening clause, to avoid repeating the relative pronoun quī, or substitutes syntactically fronted expressions
(correlative) that...which; he, she...who, it...that
1. (anaphoric) of such a nature, degree, kind (previously mentioned or implied)
2. (cataphoric) the following; of the following nature, degree, kind
(determiner) this or that [man, woman or thing] (as a noun phrase modifier)
(with genus with nominative or modī with genitive) such a, that sort of
Substituting a clause.
1. As an internal accusative: for that reason, on that account
2. Used in various prepositional phrases.

Usage notes

Latin is is an endophoric pronoun and determiner, which may be employed either as an anaphora or as a cataphora, meaning it serves as a reference to something preceding or following, respectively, in the text. Unlike a demonstrative such as ille or English this, is does not have a deictic function, meaning it cannot point to a referent in the world, but only one named in the text; nor can it be used exophorically as a 3d-person pronoun such as English (s)he that refers to something not already defined in the context but presumed to be known or deduceable by the addressee. Thus we see it used with first, second and third person.

The exophoric demonstratives/determiners in Latin are hic (proximal, near the speaker), iste (distal, near the listener), and ille (distal, far from both). Note that Latin doesn't have any 3rd-person pronouns, using the aforementioned demonstratives in their place.

Oblique cases are rare in elevated poetry.

Declension

Demonstrative pronoun.

¹The nom./dat./abl. plural forms regularly developed into a monosyllable /iː(s)/, with later remodelling - compare the etymology of deus. This /iː/ was normally spelled as EI during and as II after the Republic; a disyllabic iī, spelled II, Iꟾ, apears in Silver Age poetry, while disyllabic eīs is only post-Classical. Other spellings include EEI(S), EIEI(S), IEI(S).
²The dat. singular is found spelled EIEI (here represented as ēī) and scanned as two longs in Plautus, but also as a monosyllable. The latter is its normal scansion in Classical. Other spellings include EEI, IEI.

Derived terms

idcircō
īdem
ideō

Etymology 2

Inflected form of eō (“go”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /iːs/, [iːs̠]
(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /is/, [is]

Verb

īs

second-person singular present active indicative of eō

References

is in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Middle Dutch

Verb

third-person singular present indicative of wēsen

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English īs, from Proto-West Germanic *īs.

Alternative forms

ise, yes, yce, yys, ys, ijs, yse, ysz, hyse, hyys, ice, isse, ysse, yis

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /iːs/

Noun

is (uncountable)

ice (frozen water):
1. A layer of frozen water as a surface.
2. (rare) An individual portion of ice.
(rare, figuratively) That which is short-lived like ice.
(rare) icy conditions

Derived terms

isykle
Iseland

Descendants

English: ice
- Bislama: aes
- → Brunei Malay: ais
- → Japanese: アイス (aisu)
- → Korean: 아이스 (aiseu)
- → Malay: ais
- → Marshallese: aej, aij
- → Sinhalese: අයිස් (ayis)
- → Tokelauan: aiha
Scots: ice

References

“īs, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-15.

Etymology 2

From Old English is, third-person present singular of wesan (“to be”), from Proto-Germanic *isti, third-person present singular of *wesaną (“to be, become”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti.

Alternative forms

es, ys, us

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /is/

Verb

third-person singular present indicative of been
Synonym: bith

Descendants

English: is
Scots: is

Etymology 3

Determiner

Alternative form of his (“his”)

Pronoun

Alternative form of his (“his”)

Etymology 4

Pronoun

Alternative form of his (“her”)

Etymology 5

Pronoun

Alternative form of his (“them”)

Etymology 6

Noun

is (plural isnes)

Alternative form of iren (“iron”)

Navajo

Interjection

as if, as if it were true, it could be, is it really?, what do you mean by that?, so you say expressing surprise

Usage notes

Usually spelled with the final letter repeated: iss, isss, issss.

Alternative forms

as
isdaʼ

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse íss, from Proto-Germanic *īsą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-.

Noun

is m (definite singular isen, indefinite plural is or iser, definite plural isene)

(uncountable) ice, ice cream
(countable) ice cream on a stick or cone.

Synonyms

iskrem (ice cream)

Derived terms

References

“is” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

-is, si

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse íss, from Proto-Germanic *īsą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-. Akin to English ice.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /iːs/

Noun

is m (definite singular isen, indefinite plural isar, definite plural isane)

ice
ice cream

Synonyms

iskrem (ice cream)

Derived terms

References

“is” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Nyishi

Alternative forms

isi, esi

Etymology

From Proto-Tani *si, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *si.

Noun

water

References

P. T. Abraham (2005) A Grammar of Nyishi Language‎^[4], Delhi: Farsight Publishers and Distributors

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *īsą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-, *ey-, *ī- (“ice, frost”). Cognate with Old Frisian īs (West Frisian iis), Old Saxon īs (Low German Ies), Dutch ijs, Old High German īs (German Eis), Old Norse íss (Danish and Swedish is). There are parallels in many Iranian languages, apparently from the same Indo-European root: Avestan 𐬀𐬉𐬑𐬀‎ (aēxa, “frost, ice”), Persian ‎ (yax), Pashto جح‎ (jaḥ), Ossetian их (ix).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /iːs/

Noun

īs n

ice
- the Legend of St Andrew
the runic character ᛁ (/i/ or /i:/)

Declension

Derived terms

īsċeald
īsiġ

Descendants

Middle English: is, ise, yes, yce, yys, ys, ijs, yse, ysz, hyse, hyys, ice, isse, ysse, yis
- English: ice
  - Bislama: aes
  - → Brunei Malay: ais
  - → Japanese: アイス (aisu)
  - → Korean: 아이스 (aiseu)
  - → Malay: ais
  - → Marshallese: aej, aij
  - → Sinhalese: අයිස් (ayis)
  - → Tokelauan: aiha
- Scots: ice

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *īs. Compare Old Saxon īs, Old English īs, Old Norse íss.

Noun

īs

Descendants

Middle High German: īs
- Alemannic German: Iis, Is, Isch
  Alsatian: Iis; Eis (northern)
  
  Italian Walser: isch, éisch
- Bavarian: ais
  Cimbrian: ais
  
  Mòcheno: ais
- Central Franconian: Eis, Ies
  Hunsrik: Eis
  
  Luxembourgish: Äis
- German: Eis
- Rhine Franconian:
  Frankfurt: [ais]
  
  Pennsylvania German: Eis
- Vilamovian: ajs
- Yiddish: אײַז‎ (ayz)

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

The lemma is itself is from Proto-Celtic *esti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti; other forms are from either *h₁es- or *bʰuH-.

Verb

to be
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14^d26
  Is i persin Crist da·gníu-sa sin.
  It is in the person of Christ that I do that.

Usage notes

This is the so-called "copula", which is distinct from the "substantive verb" at·tá. The copula is used with noun predicates and to introduce a cleft sentence.

Conjugation

See {{sga-conj-is}} for the complete conjugation.

Synonyms

at·tá (substantive verb)

Derived terms

cesu (“although... is”)
condid (“so that... is”)
in (“is... ?”)
masu (“if... is”)
ní (“is not”)

Descendants

Irish: is
Manx: s’
Scottish Gaelic: is

Old Saxon

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *it.

Pronoun

is (is)

his, its

Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

third-person singular present indicative of wesan

Etymology 3

From Proto-Germanic *īsą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- (“ice, frost”). Cognate with Old Frisian īs (West Frisian iis), Old English īs (English ice), Dutch ijs, Old High German īs (German Eis), Old Norse íss (Danish and Swedish is).

Noun

īs n

ice
The runic character ᛁ (/i/ or /i:/)

Declension

Descendants

Middle Low German: îs
- Low German:
  - German Low German: Ies
    - Plautdietsch: Iess

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈis/
(Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈiʃ/

Noun

plural of i
- 2003, J. K. Rowling, Lya Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix, Rocco, page 411:
  Se você pôs os pingos nos is e cortou os tês então pode fazer o que quiser!
  If you've dotted your I's and crossed your T's, then you can do whatever you want!

Scots

Adverb

is (not comparable)

(South Scots) as

Synonyms

Conjunction

(South Scots) as

Synonyms

Pronoun

is (personal, non-emphatic)

(South Scots) me

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative form of be

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɪs̪/
Hyphenation: is

Etymology 1

Cognate with Irish is.

Conjunction

Clipping of agus (“and”).

Usage notes

Is is often shortened further to 's.

Etymology 2

From Old Irish is. Cognate with Irish is and Manx s'.

Verb

(copulative) am, is, are

Declension

Usage notes

Is is often shortened to 's.
Is is used when linking the subject of a sentence with an object ("somebody is somebody", "somebody is something", "something is something"), otherwise forms of the verb bi are used:

References

Colin Mark (2003), “is”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 368

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish is, from Old Norse íss, from Proto-Germanic *īsą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /iːs/, [iːs̪]

Noun

is c

(uncountable) Ice; frozen water.
(countable) Ice; a sheet of ice lying on a body of water.

Declension

Related terms

References

is in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English East.

Noun

East

Turkish

Noun

is (definite accusative isi, plural isler)

soot
fume (solid deposit)
kohl

Declension

Volapük

Adverb

here

Welsh

Alternative forms

îs (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Welsh is, from Proto-Celtic *ɸīssu (“under”), from Proto-Indo-European *pedsú, locative plural of *pṓds (“foot”). Cognate with Old Irish ís.

Pronunciation

(standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /iːs/
- (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /iːʃ/

Adjective

comparative degree of isel: lower

Preposition

lower than, under

Mutation

Source: wiktionary.org

BE, to exist.
(source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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is

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Verb

Quotations

Alternative forms

Synonyms

Derived terms

See also

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

Usage notes

Anagrams

Afar

Pronunciation

Pronoun

See also

References

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

Verb

Bagusa

Noun

References

Catalan

Noun

Cimbrian

Pronoun

References

Danish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

Adverb

Anagrams

Gothic

Romanization

Hungarian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Adverb

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

Irish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Conjunction

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Particle

Usage notes

Related terms

Kwerba

Noun

References

Lacandon

Etymology

Noun

Derived terms

References

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Determiner

Usage notes

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