sih

See also: SIH, SiH, Sih, sìh, sĭh, sîh, sįh, and -sĭh

Translingual

Symbol

sih

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Sîshëë.

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Sîshëë terms

Cayuga

Adverb

sih

  1. over there

References

  • Marianne Mithun, Reginald Henry (1982) Wadęwayę́stanih - A Cayuga Teaching Grammar, 3rd edition, Woodland Cultural Centre, published 2015, page 97

Etymology

∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -sih (hope, noun stem used as a verb stem)

Noun

sih

  1. hope, mercy
  2. a chance
  3. life

Verb

sih

  1. (with bił) to be satisfied with it

Conjugation

Paradigm: Momentaneous (∅/yi), third person only.

3rd person singular
IMPERFECTIVE sih
PERFECTIVE yísih
FUTURE doosih
ITERATIVE násih
OPTATIVE wósih
  • hasih

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sik, from Proto-Germanic *sek, whence also Old Saxon sik, Old Norse sik.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /s̠ix/

Pronoun

sih

  1. self

Inflection

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Middle High German: sich
    • Bavarian: si, sich
    • Central Franconian: sich, sech
    • East Central German: sich
      • Zipser German: ßich
    • German: sich
    • Yiddish: זיך (zikh)
    • Middle Dutch: sich
    • Middle Low German: sik, sek (adapted to native mik, dik)
      • Low German: sik, sick (variant spelling), sük, sück (East Frisian, northern Emsland), sek, seck (Eastphalian, East Prussian), sich (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)

Slovak

Etymology

Probably from Russian сиг (sig).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [six]

Noun

sih m animal

  1. whitefish (fish of the genus Coregonus)

Declension

Declension of sih
(patterns chlap (singular) and dub (plural))
singularplural
nominativesihsihy
genitivesihasihov
dativesihovisihom
accusativesihasihy
locativesihovisihoch
instrumentalsihomsihmi

Further reading

  • sih”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025