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Definitions and meaning of si

si

Translingual

Symbol

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Sinhalese.

Alternative forms

Etymology

Acronym of Latin Sancte Ioannes, the phrase ending the hymn Ut queant laxis from earlier words of which the other notes of solfège were derived.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /siː/
Rhymes: -iː
Homophones: C, cee, sea, see

Noun

si (plural sis)

(music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.

Translations

Anagrams

'is, I's, IS, Is, i's, is, is-, is.

Albanian

Etymology

Varying reconstructions. Orel descends it from Proto-Albanian *tšei, Matzinger from Proto-Albanian *čī. Ultimately from instrumental Proto-Indo-European *kwi-h₁. Compare Latin qui (“how, why”), Old English hwȳ, hwī (“why”). An interrogative and relative pronoun, especially in connection with a preposition.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [si]

Adverb

how; in what way; in what state
Si janë shokët e tu? ― How are your friends?
like, as

Derived terms

References

Alemannic German

Etymology 1

From Old High German siu, from Proto-Germanic *sī. Cognate with German sie (“she; it”), Gothic 𐍃𐌹 (si), Old English sēo.

Pronoun

si f

she
it (for referents of the feminine grammatical gender)

Declension

Etymology 2

From Old High German sie m pl, sio f pl, siu n pl. Cognate with German sie, Dutch zij.

Pronoun

si pl

they

Declension

Etymology 3

From Middle High German sein, sīn, from Old High German sīn, from Proto-Germanic *sīnaz. Cognate with German sein, Dutch zijn, West Frisian syn, Icelandic sinn.

Alternative forms

siin

Determiner

Declension

Inflected forms include:

Etymology 4

From Middle High German sīn, from Old High German sīn. Cognate with German sein, Dutch zijn, Low German sien.

Alternative forms

sii, siin, sinh, ŝchi

Verb

(Gressoney) to be

References

Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin si.

Conjunction

Bahnar

Etymology

From Proto-Bahnaric *ciː, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ciiʔ (“louse”); cognate with Vietnamese chí, chấy.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /siː/

Noun

louse

Belizean Creole

Etymology

From English see.

Verb

References

Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, pp. 315–316.

Bikol Central

Etymology

Compare Chamorro si, Indonesian si, Malay si, and Tagalog si.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /si/, [si]

Article

si (plural sina)

direct marker placed before names or terms of address of people
Nagdalagan si Juan. ― Juan ran.

Dinara ninda si Tatay sa ospital. ― They brought Father to the hospital.
direct marker placed before an adjective used to refer to a person with those distinct characteristics
Yaon na si Taba. ― Fatso is here.
(Naga) direct marker placed before common nouns
Synonym: su

Kinua ko na si pakete. ― I already got the package

Catalan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [si]
Homophone: sí
Rhymes: -i

Etymology 1

From Old Catalan si, from Latin si (“if”).

Conjunction

Etymology 2

From Latin Sancte Iohannes (“Saint John”) in the hymn for St. John the Baptist.

Noun

si m (plural sis)

(music) si (seventh note of a diatonic scale)

Etymology 3

From Old Catalan si~sin, from Latin sĭnus.

Noun

si m (plural sins)

cavity, depression
(anatomy) sinus
(figuratively) uterus
front portion of the breast
(figuratively) heart
estuary, bay

Etymology 4

From Latin sĭbī.

Pronoun

himself, herself, itself
oneself
themselves
each other

Usage notes

Si is the stressed (or "strong", or "tonic") form of the reflexive pronoun es. As such, it is used after prepositions.

Declension

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

sei, sein (Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

From Middle High German sīn.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ziː/, /zi/
Homophone: sie

Determiner

si (masculine senge or singe, feminine and plural seng or sing)

(Ripuarian) his, its (third-person masculine and neuter possessive)
Wo hät e dann si Jlas henjestallt? ― Where did he put his glass?

Usage notes

The form seng/sing is used for the neuter when strongly stressed: Dat es sing Jlas! (“That's his glass!”) Contrariwise, the form si may be used for the masculine and feminine when unstressed, chiefly with words for relatives: si Papp (“his father”, but less common than senge Papp).

Chamorro

Etymology

Compare Bikol Central si, Indonesian si, and Malay si.

Preposition

Subject marker for personal names

Chavacano

Etymology 1

Inherited from Spanish sí.

Particle

Etymology 2

Inherited from Spanish si (“if”).

Conjunction

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

zi (Sette Comuni)

Etymology

From Middle High German si(e), from Old High German siu, from Proto-West Germanic *sī, from Proto-Germanic *sī, nominative singular feminine of *iz. Cognate with German sie.

Pronoun

(Luserna) she, it

Inflection

References

“si” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *si.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈsɪ]

Pronoun

si (reflexive)

clitic dative of sebe:
to oneself

to myself

to yourself
Posluž si. ― Serve yourself.

to himself

to herself

to itself

to ourselves

to yourselves

to themselves

Synonym: (stressed) sobě

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin sex.

Numeral

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse sía (“to sieve, filter”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /siː/, [siːˀ]
Rhymes: -i
Rhymes: -iː

Noun

si c (singular definite sien, plural indefinite sier)

sieve
strainer
colander

Inflection

Verb

si (imperative si, infinitive at si, present tense sier, past tense siede, perfect tense har siet)

sieve
strain
sift

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

si m or f (plural si's, diminutive sietje n)

musical note; ti

Anagrams

Esperanto

Etymology

From Italian si, French soi, Spanish se, Latin se, plus the i of personal pronouns.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [si]
Audio:
Hyphenation: si

Pronoun

si (reflexive, accusative sin, possessive sia)

himself, herself, itself, themselves, oneself

Usage notes

The reflexive pronoun si is only used to refer to the third person (In English: he/she/it/they) not the first or second person (In English: I/we/you). When the subject of a sentence is first or second person, the same pronoun is repeated (with the accusative ending -n added if needed) instead of using si. (E.g. "they wash themselves" is ili lavas sin, but "I wash myself" is mi lavas min, instead of *mi lavas sin.)

Ewe

Verb

to escape

Fala

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese se, from Latin sī (“if”).

Conjunction

if (used to introduce a condition or choice)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

Alternative form of se

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /si/
Homophones: ci, scie, scient, scies

Etymology 1

From Old French se, from Latin si (“if”).

Conjunction

if, whether
Je me demande si elle sera seule. ― I wonder if she'll be alone.

Je veux savoir si tu viendras ou non. ― I want to know if you're coming or not.
if (assuming that)
Si j’avais ses pouvoirs, je créerais un monde où le mal n’existe pas. ― If I had his power, I'd create a world where evil didn't exist.

Si tu n’avais pas appelé, je serais morte. ― If you hadn't called, I'd be dead.
even if
although, while

Usage notes

Elided preceding il or ils, resulting in the contracted forms s’il and s’ils.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old French si, from Latin sic (“so, thus”). Doublet of sic.

Interjection

yes (used to contradict a negative statement)
Synonym: (archaic) si fait

Usage notes

The positive particle usage is uncommon in Québec, where most speakers use oui instead.

Adverb

so, such (intensifier)
(si + adjective/adverb + que ...) however (to whatever extent or degree)
Synonyms: aussi, tout, quelque

Usage notes

In the sense however, the verb is usually in the subjunctive.
The que is sometimes replaced by an inverted-subject construction with a subjunctive verbal element and nominal, usually a personal pronoun.
si heureuse soit-elle ― however happy she may be

si faible paraisse-t-il ― however weak he may seem

Etymology 3

Noun

si m (plural si)

(music) si, the note 'B'

Derived terms

si majeur

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin se.

Pronoun

si (third person)

(reflexive) himself, herself

Related terms

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin sīc.

Interjection

yes
Antonym: non

Etymology 2

From Latin sē, ablative and accusative pronoun form.

Pronoun

si (accusative se, dative se)

himself, herself, itself
themselves

Usage notes

The pronoun si is used exclusively as the object of a preposition; no nominative form exists.

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

si m (plural sis)

(music) si (musical note)
(music) B (the musical note or key)

Gothic

Romanization

Romanization of 𐍃𐌹

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese se. Cognate with Kabuverdianu si.

Conjunction

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French si.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /si/

Conjunction

Iau

Noun

woman

References

Bill Palmer, The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area (→ISBN, 2017), page 531, table 95, Comparative basic vocabulary in Lakes Plain Languages

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian sì, Spanish sí.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /si/

Adverb

(archaic) yes
Synonym: yes

Antonym: no

References

Progreso I (in Ido), 1908–1909, page 10

Indonesian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /si/

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare Bikol Central si, Chamorro si, and Malay si, Tagalog si.

Article

Definite article used before the names of those with whom the speaker and interlocutor is intimate
Tiada satupun yang berani pada si Tigor pemberani. ― No one dared to brave Tigor.

Kukatakan pada si Yopi kecil, janganlah marah ― I said to little Yopi, don't angry.

Kudengar bahwa si Tuti besar sedang sakit ― I hear that big Tuti is ill.
Definite article used before a noun referring to a particular person in a category
Si penjual jamu itu cantik sekali. ― That jamu seller is very pretty.

Dia tertawa dengan si orang asing itu. ― She was laughing with the foreigner.

Si pemuda itu tersenyum lebar lalu pergi. ― The young man smiled broadly then left.
Definite article used before an adjective referring to a person whose well-known characteristics are referred to by the adjective
Namanya si Putih ― Its name is Whitey.

Si Gendut ― Fatso

Si Goblok ― Old Muttonhead

Etymology 2

Noun

(law enforcement) aphetic form of seksi (“section”)

Interlingua

Adverb

Italian

Alternative forms

-si (enclitic)

Etymology 1

From Latin se (“him-, her-, it-, themselves”, reflexive third-person pronoun). Cognate with Spanish se and Portuguese se and si.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /si/
Rhymes: -i
Hyphenation: si

Pronoun

(reflexive) oneself, himself, herself, itself, themselves
Il tuo gatto si lava sul mio letto. ― Your cat cleans himself/itself on my bed.

La tua gatta si lava sul mio letto. ― Your cat cleans herself on my bed.

Marco si è rotto il braccio. ― Marco has broken his arm.
(reciprocal pronoun) each other, one another
Carlo e Laura si amano. ― Carlo and Laura love each other.
(indefinite) one, you, we, they, people
In Italia si pranza intorno all'una. ― In Italy they eat lunch around 13.

In Italia si tende ad andare a letto tardi. ― In Italy, people tend to go to bed late.

Si dice che Maria volesse uccidere Giovanni. ― It is said that Maria wanted to kill Giovanni.

Da questa finestra si vede la banca. ― From this window, one can see the bank.
(si passivante) Used to form the passive voice of a verb; it
Si vende latte. / Vendesi latte. ― Milk for sale.

Non si accettano carte di credito. ― Credit cards are not accepted.
(dialectal, notably Rome) reflexive and reciprocal first person pronoun, where Standard Italian uses ci

Usage notes

When si is part of an infinitive, it can be placed before it as a separate word, but more often it is attached to the end. In this case, the final -e of the infinitive is dropped, or, in the case of infinitives ending in -rre, the final -re is dropped. Examples: amar(e) + si = amarsi; ridur(re) + si = ridursi.
Often translated using the passive voice in English when used as indefinite personal pronoun:
Si dice che […] ― It is said that […]
Verb + si is often translated as become or get + [past participle] in English.
In cases where si (indefinite pronoun) and si (reflexive pronoun) follow each other, the first si is replaced with ci:
Ci si lava. ― One washes oneself.

(instead of: *Si si lava.)
Becomes se when followed by a third-person direct object clitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).

Etymology 2

IPA^(key): /ˈsi/, /ˈsi/^*
Rhymes: -i
Hyphenation: sì

Noun

(music) si (musical note B)

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

Derived from English see.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /si/

Verb

to see

Preposition

(Used with ya) Here is; here are.

Japhug

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /si/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *səj (“to die”). Cognate with Tibetan ཤི (shi), Chinese 死 (OC *hljiʔ).

Verb

(Kamnyu, intransitive) to die

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *siŋ ~ *sik (“tree; wood; firewood”). Cognate with Tibetan ཤིང (shing, “tree”), Chinese 薪 (OC *siŋ, “firewood”), Tangut 𗝠 (*sji¹, “tree”).

Noun

(Kamnyu) tree
(Kamnyu) wood

References

Guillaume Jacques, Argument Demotion in Japhug Rgyalrong (2012)
Guillaume Jacques (2021) A grammar of Japhug‎^[1], Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN

Kabuverdianu

Etymology 1

From Portuguese se.

Conjunction

Etymology 2

From Portuguese sim.

Adverb

Khumi Chin

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sʰi˩/

Noun

wild cow

References

K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎^[2], Payap University, page 50

Koro (India)

Noun

water

References

Roger Blench, Mark Post, (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconstructing the evidence (2011)

Kusaal

Etymology

from French scie (“saw”)

Noun

saw (tool)

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin sē.

Adjective

(possessive) his, her, hers, its, their

Latin

Alternative forms

sei (standard in Republican spelling)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sei (“so, thus”) used in parataxis, likely via the meaning "in this" as the locative singular of Proto-Indo-European *só (“this, that”); this older meaning is preserved in Latin sīc as well as in the oath sī dīs placet, cf. English so help me God. Related to Old English sē (“he, that”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /siː/, [s̠iː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /si/, [siː]

Conjunction

sī

if, supposing that
whether (when a verb of seeing or trying is the main verb in the apodosis; or when sī is used twice correlatively)
sī... sī ― whether... or

Derived terms

Descendants

References

si in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
si in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
si in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
si in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
si in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sī, sīc”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 561

Latvian

Noun

si m (invariable)

(music) si

Lolopo

Etymology

From Proto-Loloish *ʃe² (“to die”), from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *səj¹ (“to die”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *səj (“to die”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [sz̩³³]

Verb

(Yao'an) to die

Noun

(Yao'an) death

References

Merrifield, Judith, Merrifield, Scott (2018) “Query for si”, in Yao'an Loxrlavu – English Dictionary (in Chinese), SIL International

Louisiana Creole

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /si/
Rhymes: -i

Etymology 1

Inherited from French si (“if”).

Conjunction

Etymology 2

Inherited from French si (“so”).

Adverb

so (intensifier)

Etymology 3

Inherited from French six (“six”).

Numeral

Usage notes

Precedes consonant-initial words. See usage notes at sis.

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /zi/

Pronoun

third-person feminine singular, nominative: she
Si ass eng ganz schéi Fra. ― She is a very beautiful woman
third-person feminine singular, accusative: her
Den Hond huet si gebass. ― The dog bit her
third-person plural, nominative: they
Si si ganz schéi Fraen. ― They are very beautiful women.
third-person plural, accusative: them
Den Hond huet si gebass. ― The dog bit them

Usage notes

The feminine singular is used chiefly with feminine words for things. Female persons are predominantly treated as grammatically neuter, though the feminine is not impossible. See hatt for more.

Declension

Macanese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Portuguese se.

Conjunction

if (introduces a condition)
si nunca ― otherwise (literally, “if not”)

si sâm capaz ― if you are brave / if you dare

si más pricisâ ― if more is needed

si já falâ co iou ― if you had told me

si vosôtro querê vêm ― if you (pl.) want to come

iou vai olâ si têm ― I'm going to see if there is any

si têm vagar lôgo vêm ― I'll come if I have time

Derived terms

nunca-si

References

https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

Malay

Etymology

from Proto-Austronesian *si₁. Compare Compare Berik si, Chamorro si, Indonesian si, and Tagalog si.

Article

the (primarily used with people, rarely necessary)
definite particle used with adjectives to describe people
a definite article used in names or nicknames

Synonyms

sang (more formal)

Mandarin

Romanization

si (si⁵／si⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄙ)

Hanyu Pinyin reading of 廁／厕

Nonstandard spelling of sī.
Nonstandard spelling of sǐ.
Nonstandard spelling of sì.

Usage notes

Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French si.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /si/

Conjunction

Derived terms

Interjection

yes (used to contradict a negative statement)

Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ziː/

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch sia.

Alternative forms

sie, soe, so

Pronoun

Inflection

Descendants

Dutch: zij
- Afrikaans: sy
Limburgish: zie

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch sia.

Alternative forms

Pronoun

they (all genders)

Inflection

Descendants

Dutch: zij
Limburgish: zie

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

first/third-person singular present subjunctive of wēsen

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English sīe, singular subjunctive of wesan, from Proto-Germanic *sijǭ (first person), *sijēs (second person), and *sijē (third person), singular subjunctive forms of *wesaną.

Verb

(Early Middle English, rare) singular present subjunctive of been

Middle French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French se.

Adverb

if
then (afterwards; following)

Descendants

French: si

Middle Low German

Pronunciation

Possibly: IPA^(key): /siː/
Certainly: Stem vowel: ê⁴
- IPA^(key): /siɛ/, /siə/

Pronoun

sî

Alternative form of sê

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German si(e), from Old High German siu, from Proto-West Germanic *sī, from Proto-Germanic *sī, nominative singular feminine of *iz. Cognate with German sie.

Pronoun

she, it

Inflection

References

“si” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Mokilese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsi/

Noun

Declension

Molo

Noun

water

References

Marvin Lionel Bender, Topics in Nilo-Saharan linguistics (1989)
[3]

Nalca

Noun

tooth
name

Norman

Etymology

From Old French si, from Latin si (“if”).

Conjunction

(Guernsey) if

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /siː/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse segja, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-.

Verb

si (imperative si, present tense sier, passive sies, past tense sa, past participle sagt, present participle siende)

to say

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Determiner

feminine singular of sin

Etymology 3

See the main entry.

Noun

si (uncountable)

Alternative form of side, used only in the phrase på si.

Etymology 4

Noun

si (uncountable)

(music) si (seventh note of a major scale)

References

“si” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
“si” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Anagrams

-is, is

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Determiner

si f

feminine singular of sin

Etymology 2

Acronym of Latin Sancte Ioannes, the phrase ending the hymn Ut queant laxis from earlier words of which the other notes of solfège were derived. A younger alteration, ti, allows for every note of the solfège to begin with a different letter.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /siː/
Homophone: sid

Noun

si m (definite singular si-en, indefinite plural si-ar, definite plural si-ane)

(music) si, a syllable used in seventh note of a major scale

Coordinate terms

(scale of solfège): do, re, mi, fa, so (or sol), la, ti (or si), do

Etymology 3

Akin to the first part of Old Norse síþráðr.

Noun

si n (definite singular siet, uncountable)

(collective, nautical, dated) tatters of rope used to stop leakage

Etymology 4

Doublet of side.

Noun

si ?

Used only idiomatically in the prepositional phrase på si.

Etymology 5

Clipping of sidan.

Adverb

(dialectal) since
(dialectal) ago
(dialectal) because, for

References

“si” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

IS, is, SI, si-

Old English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /siː/

Verb

sī

Alternative form of sīe

Old French

Alternative forms

se
s' (before a vowel)

Etymology 1

From Latin sic.

Adverb

so; thus; in such a way

Descendants

French: si
Norman: si

Etymology 2

See se.

Conjunction

Alternative form of se (if)

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin sīc (“thus; so”), from Proto-Indo-European *so (“this, that”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsi/

Adverb

yes, affirmatively
- ſi ou non
  yes or no

Descendants

Fala: sí
Galician: si
Portuguese: sim

Old High German

Verb

sī

first/third-person singular present subjunctive of wesan

Old Saxon

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /si/

Article

feminine nominative singular of sē

Declension

Pali

Etymology 1

Inherited from Sanskrit शी (śī).

Root

to lie down

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Inherited from Sanskrit श्रि (śri).

Root

to rest on

Usage notes

The initial consonant tends to geminate after prefixes.

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Inherited from Sanskrit सि (si)

Root

to bind

Derived terms

Papiamentu

Etymology 1

From Spanish si and Portuguese se and Kabuverdianu si.

Conjunction

if
when

Etymology 2

From Spanish sí and Portuguese sim and Kabuverdianu si.

Adverb

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -i
Hyphenation: si

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese si, from Latin sibi, from Proto-Indo-European *sébʰye, dative of *swé (“self”). Cognate with French soi, Italian sé, Spanish sí.

Alternative forms

sy (obsolete)

Pronoun

si (reflexive)

(following a preposition) oneself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, yourselves, themselves

Etymology 2

From Latin Sancte Iohannes (“Saint John”) in the hymn for St. John the Baptist.

Noun

si m (plural sis)

si (musical note)

Coordinate terms

(C major scale) escala de dó maior; dó, ré, mi, fá, sol, lá, si

Etymology 3

Conjunction

Eye dialect spelling of se, representing Brazil Portuguese.

Quapaw

Etymology

Cognate with Assiniboine sihá, Dakota sihá, Lakota sí, Omaha-Ponca si, Hidatsa icí, Crow iché.

Noun

foot

Romagnol

Pronunciation

(Central Romagnol): IPA^(key): [ˈsiː]

(Ville Unite):

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin sĕx (“six”).

Numeral

si m

Etymology 2

From the initial letters of Sancte + Iohannes, of the seventh verse of the hymn Ut queant laxis.

Noun

si m (plural si)

Si (musical note)

Etymology 3

Inherited from Latin sēbum (“tallow”).

Noun

si m (plural si)

tallow

References

Masotti, Adelmo (1996) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, pages 584, 585

Romani

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

to be
there be
Used before an accusative personal pronoun to indicate possession.

Usage notes

The personal pronoun is often omitted when si is used to mean "to be".
When a noun indicates the possessor, si follows the accusative case of the noun.

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

Yūsuke Sumi (2018) ニューエクスプレスプラス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 71

Romanian

Etymology

From Italian si.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /si/

Noun

si m (plural si)

(music) si (musical note B)

Declension

Romansch

Alternative forms

(Sutsilvan, Surmiran) sen, se
(Puter, Vallader) sü

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin, Late Latin root sūsum, from Latin sūrsum.

Adverb

(Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) up, upward, upwards

Sassarese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /si/

Etymology 1

From Latin se (“him-, her-, it-, themselves”, reflexive third-person pronoun). Cognate with Italian si, Portuguese si and se.

Alternative forms

s' (apocopic)
-ssi (enclitic)

Pronoun

(reflexive) oneself, himself, herself, itself, themselves
La camìsgia si la pònini li manni ― Adults wear shirts (literally, “The adults put the shirt on themselves”)
(reciprocal pronoun) each other, one another
Eddi s'àmani ― They love each other
(indefinite) one, you, we, they, people
Lu zipressu si dizi "àiburu di campusantu" ― The cypress is called "graveyard tree"

Related terms

sóiu

Etymology 2

From Latin sī, from Proto-Italic *sei (“so, thus”) used in parataxis, likely via the meaning "in this" as the locative singular of Proto-Indo-European *só (“this, that”).

Conjunction

if
Si lu sai, dìmmiru! ― If you know, tell me! (literally, “If you know it, tell it to me!”)

References

Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

Savi

Etymology

From Sanskrit सेतु (setu).

Noun

bridge

References

Nina Knobloch (2020) A grammar sketch of Sauji: An Indo-Aryan language of Afghanistan‎^[4], Stockholm University

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /si/

Pronoun

si (Cyrillic spelling си)

(reflexive) Replaces the dative of a personal pronoun when the subject is of the same person as the dative object; to oneself (clitic dative singular of sȅbe (“oneself”))
1. to myself
2. to yourself
3. to himself, herself, itself
4. to ourselves
5. to yourselves
6. to themselves
(reflexive, emphatic, possessive, dative) one's, of oneself (clitic dative singular of sebe (“one”))

Declension

Verb

si (Cyrillic spelling си)

second-person singular present of bȉti

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *esi.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [si]

Verb

second-person singular present of byť
(you) are, (thou) art

Pronoun

replaces the dative of a personal pronoun when the subject is of the same person as the dative object; roughly comparable with “to oneself” or “for oneself”
Synonym: sebe

Kupujem si topánky. ― I am buying myself shoes.

Komu kupuješ topánky? Sebe. ― Whom are you buying the shoes for? For myself.

Slovene

Pronunciation 1

IPA^(key): /sí/

Verb

sȉ

second-person singular present of bíti

Pronunciation 2

IPA^(key): /si/

Pronoun

dative singular of sébe

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin si (“if”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /si/ [si]
Rhymes: -i
Syllabification: si
Homophone: sí

Conjunction

Derived terms

Sumerian

Romanization

Romanization of 𒋛

Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

negative present (all persons, numbers, and classes) of -wa (“to not be”)

-si

negative relative stem of -wa, -wapo, -wako, or -wamo
mtu asiye na maarifa ― a person without knowledge

Tagalog

Etymology 1

From Proto-Austronesian *si. Compare Bikol Central si, Cebuano si, Gorontalo ti, Hiligaynon si, Ilocano si, Kapampangan i, Pangasinan si, and Waray-Waray si.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /si/, [sɪ]
Hyphenation: si

Article

si (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒ, plural sina)

direct marker placed before names or terms of address of people
direct marker placed before an adjective used to refer to a person with those distinct characteristics
Nandiyan na si taba. ― Fatso is there.

Alternative forms

c — text messaging
çi — archaic

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English cee, the English name of the letter C/c.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /si/, [sɪ]
Rhymes: -i
Hyphenation: si

Noun

si (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒ)

the name of the Latin-script letter C, in the Filipino alphabet.
Synonym: (in the Abecedario) ce

Ternate

Adverb

first, firstly

References

Rika Hayami-Allen (2001). A Descriptive Study of the Language of Ternate, the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia. University of Pittsburgh.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English sea.

Noun

sea
waves; breakers; swells

Turkish

Etymology

From Italian si

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /si/
Rhymes: -sɪ

Noun

si (definite accusative siyi, plural siler)

(music) si (musical note B)

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *ɟ-riː, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɟriiʔ; cognate with Bahnar jri, Khmer ជ្រៃ (crɨy), Khasi jri, Old Mon jrey.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [si˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʂɪj˧˧] ~ [sɪj˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʂɪj˧˧] ~ [sɪj˧˧]

Noun

(classifier cây) si

certain members of the Mallotus and Ficus genera

Volapük

Interjection

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin si (“if”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /si/

Conjunction

Welsh

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /siː/
Rhymes: -iː

Noun

si m (plural sïon, not mutable)

murmur, hum
rumour

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sí/

Noun

sí

The name of the Latin-script letter S.

Etymology 2

Preposition

sí

to, at, toward (used when movement is implied)

Etymology 3

Compare with Itsekiri sín

Verb

sí

(intransitive) to be far, to be distant

Etymology 4

Verb

sí

(intransitive) Negative form of wà

Etymology 5

Conjunction

sì

Usage notes

Sì is solely used to join verbs/sentences and not nouns, for which àti is used. Additionally, when sì is used, the subject of each verb must be specified.

Mo jó, mo kọ́ ẹ̀kọ́, mo sì kọ lẹ́tà. – I danced, studied, and wrote a letter.
Wọn kò fẹ́ ṣiṣẹ́, wọn kò sì fẹ́ ṣeré. – They don't want to work or play.

Zhuang

Etymology

From Chinese 市 (shì).

Pronunciation

(Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /θi˧˥/
Tone numbers: si⁵
Hyphenation: si

Noun

si (1957–1982 spelling si)

city

Zou

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-hjwəj-t (“blood”). Cognates include Nuosu ꌦ (sy) and Burmese သွေး (swe:).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /si˧˩/

Noun

sì

blood

Verb

sì

(intransitive) to die

References

Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, pages 40, 47

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