si

si

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

• ti

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.

• IPA^(key): /siː/

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: C, cee, sea, see

si (plural sis)

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

• 'is, I's, IS, Is, i's, is, is-, is.

Varying reconstructions. Orel descends it from Proto-Albanian *tšei,[1] Matzinger from Proto-Albanian *čī.[2] 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.

• IPA^(key): [si]

si

1. how; in what way; in what state

   Si janë shokët e tu? ― How are your friends?

2. like, as

   Si e dini, nuk kemi filluar ende.

   As you know, we've not yet begun.

• qysh

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

si f

1. she
2. it (for referents of the feminine grammatical gender)

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

si pl

1. they

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.

• siin

si

1. his

Inflected forms include:

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

• sii, siin, sinh, ŝchi

si

1. (Gressoney) to be

• 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

From Latin si.

si

1. if

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

• IPA^(key): /siː/

si

1. louse

From English see.

si

1. see

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

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

• IPA^(key): /si/, [si]

si (plural sina)

1. 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.

2. direct marker placed before an adjective used to refer to a person with those distinct characteristics

   Yaon na si Taba. ― Fatso is here.

3. (Naga) direct marker placed before common nouns

   Synonym: su

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

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

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

si

1. if

• si bé
• si de cas
• si doncs no
• si més no
• si no
• si per cas
• si et plau
• si us plau

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

si m (plural sis)

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

From Old Catalan si~sin, from Latin sĭnus.

si m (plural sins)

1. cavity, depression
2. (anatomy) sinus
3. (figuratively) uterus
4. front portion of the breast
5. (figuratively) heart
6. estuary, bay

• si d'Abraham m

From Latin sĭbī.

si

1. himself, herself, itself
2. oneself
3. themselves
4. each other

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

• de si mateix
• en si
• entre si
• fora de si
• per a si
• per si mateix
• tornar en si

• sí

• sei, sein (Moselle Franconian)

From Middle High German sīn.

• IPA^(key): /ziː/, /zi/
• Homophone: sie

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

1. (Ripuarian) his, its (third-person masculine and neuter possessive)

   Wo hät e dann si Jlas henjestallt? ― Where did he put his glass?

• 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).

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

si

1. Subject marker for personal names

Inherited from Spanish sí.

si

1. yes

Inherited from Spanish si (“if”).

si

1. if

• zi (Sette Comuni)

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.

si

1. (Luserna) she, it

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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *si.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɪ]

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si (reflexive)

1. 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

• si in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• si in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Latin sex.

si

1. six

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

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

si c (singular definite sien, plural indefinite sier)

1. sieve
2. strainer
3. colander

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

1. sieve
2. strain
3. sift

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

1. musical note; ti

• is

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

• IPA^(key): [si]
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• Hyphenation: si

si (reflexive, accusative sin, possessive sia)

1. himself, herself, itself, themselves, oneself

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.)

si

1. to escape

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

si

1. if (used to introduce a condition or choice)
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme I, Chapter 1: Lengua Española:

     I si “a patria do homi é sua lengua”, cumu idía Albert Camus, o que está claru é que a lengua está mui por encima de fronteiras, serras, rius i maris, de situaciós pulíticas i sociu-económicas, de lazus religiosus e inclusu familiaris.

     And if “a man’s homeland is his language”, as Albert Camus said, what is clear is that language is above borders, mountain ranges, rivers and seas, above political and socio-economic situations, of religious and even family ties.

si

1. Alternative form of se
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme I, Chapter 2: Númerus?:

     As lenguas, idiomas, dialectus o falas tenin un-as funciós mui claras desde o principiu dos siglu i si hai contabilizaus en o mundu un-as 8.000 lenguas, ca un-a con sua importancia numérica relativa, a nossa fala é un tesoiru mais entre elas.

     The tongues, languages or regional variants have some very clear functions since the beginning of the centuries and some 8,000 languages have been accounted for in the world, each with its relative numerical importance, Fala is yet another treasure among them.

• IPA^(key): /si/

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• Homophones: ci, scie, scient, scies

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

si

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. even if
4. although, while

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

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

si

1. yes (used to contradict a negative statement)

   Synonym: (archaic) si fait

   Tu ne m’aimes pas, n’est-ce pas ? — Si !

   You don’t like me, do you? — Yes, I do!

   Moi, je n’ai rien fait ! — Si !

   I didn't do anything! — Yes, you did!

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

si

1. so, such (intensifier)

   J’étais si fatigué ces jours-ci que je n’avais pas le courage de vous écrire.

   I was so tired those days that I didn't have the energy to write to you.

   Cela n’aurait pas été une si bonne idée.

   That wouldn't have been such a good idea.

2. (si + adjective/adverb + que ...) however (to whatever extent or degree)

   Synonyms: aussi, tout, quelque

   Si bavard qu’il soit, il ne dit rien de stupide.

   However talkative he may be, he doesn't say anything stupid.

   • 2017, Luc Brisson, Platon:

     Mais un législateur qui aurait un tant soit peu de worth, si infime soit elle, quand bien même il n’en irait pas comme l’argument vient de le démontrer, n’aurait-il pas commis en cette occasion, plus qu’en n’importe quelle autre circonstance où il aurait eu l’audace de mentir aux jeunes gens dans l’intérêt du bien, son plus utile mensonge, celui capable de faire que tous, non pas de force mais de leur plein gré, se conduisent de façon entièrement juste ?

     But a legislator who would have the slightest bit of valour, however tiny it may be, even if it were not as the argument has just demonstrated, would he not have committed on this occasion, more than in any other circumstance where he would have had the audacity to lie to young people in the interest of the good, his most useful lie, the one capable of making everyone, not by force but of their own accord, behave in an entirely just fashion?

• 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

si m (plural si)

1. (music) si, the note 'B'

• si majeur

• “si”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin se.

si (third person)

1. (reflexive) himself, herself

• lui
• jê

From Latin sīc.

si

1. yes

   Antonym: non

From Latin sē, ablative and accusative pronoun form.

si (accusative se, dative se)

1. himself, herself, itself
2. themselves

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

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

si m (plural sis)

1. (music) si (musical note)
2. (music) B (the musical note or key)

• (musical notes) nota musical; dó, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si ^{(Category: gl:Music)}

si

1. Romanization of 𐍃𐌹

From Portuguese se. Cognate with Kabuverdianu si.

si

1. if

From French si.

• IPA^(key): /si/

si

1. if

si

1. woman

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

Borrowed from Italian sì, Spanish sí.

• IPA^(key): /si/

si

1. (archaic) yes

   Synonym: yes

   Antonym: no

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

• IPA^(key): /si/

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(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.

si

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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

si

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

si

1. yes

• -si (enclitic)

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

• IPA^(key): /si/

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• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: si

si

1. (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.

2. (reciprocal pronoun) each other, one another

   Carlo e Laura si amano. ― Carlo and Laura love each other.

3. (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.

4. (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.

5. (dialectal, notably Rome) reflexive and reciprocal first person pronoun, where Standard Italian uses ci

   Se semo fatti sei chilometri a fette. (Ci siamo fatti sei chilometri a piedi.)

   We walked for six kilometers.

   Volemose bene. (Vogliamoci bene.)

   Let's love each other.

   Se la smezzamo? (Ce la dividiamo?)

   Do you want to split?

   • 1483, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Orlando Innamorato, I, XVIII, lines 37–39:

     Ambo se poseremo in questo prato
     e domatina, come il giorno pare,
     ritornaremo insieme a battagliare.

     We will both lay down in this meadow
     and tomorrow morning, when the day appears,
     together we will go back to fight.

• 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).

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

si

1. (music) si (musical note B)

• sì
• ci

• si in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Derived from English see.

• IPA^(key): /si/

si

1. to see

   Mi wuda laik si im tu.

   I'd like to see him too.

si

1. (Used with ya) Here is; here are.

   Si Jan ya.

   Here is John.

   Si yu buk-dem ya.

   Here are your books.

• si at majstro.com

si

1. The katakana syllable スィ (si) in Hepburn-like romanization.

• IPA^(key): /si/

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *səj (“to die”). Cognate with Tibetan ཤི (shi), Chinese 死 (OC *hljiʔ).[1]

si

1. (Kamnyu, intransitive) to die

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *siŋ ~ *sik (“tree; wood; firewood”). Cognate with Tibetan ཤིང (shing, “tree”), Chinese 薪 (OC *siŋ, “firewood”), Tangut 𗝠 (*sji¹, “tree”).[2][3]

si

1. (Kamnyu) tree
2. (Kamnyu) wood

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

From Portuguese se.

si

1. if

From Portuguese sim.

si

1. yes

• IPA^(key): /sʰi˩/

si

1. wild cow

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

si

1. water

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

from French scie (“saw”)

si

1. saw (tool)

From Latin sē.

si

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

• sei (standard in Republican spelling)

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”).

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

sī

1. if, supposing that

   Sī versūs hōrum duōrum poētārum neglegētis, magnā parte litterārum carēbitis.

   If you neglect the verses of these two poets, you will miss a great part of literature.

2. 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

• 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

si m (invariable)

1. (music) si

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

• IPA^(key): [sz̩³³]

si 

1. (Yao'an) to die

si 

1. (Yao'an) death

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

• IPA^(key): /si/
• Rhymes: -i

Inherited from French si (“if”).

si

1. if

Inherited from French si (“so”).

si

1. so (intensifier)

Inherited from French six (“six”).

si

1. six

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

• IPA^(key): /zi/

si

1. third-person feminine singular, nominative: she

   Si ass eng ganz schéi Fra. ― She is a very beautiful woman

2. third-person feminine singular, accusative: her

   Den Hond huet si gebass. ― The dog bit her

3. third-person plural, nominative: they

   Si si ganz schéi Fraen. ― They are very beautiful women.

4. third-person plural, accusative: them

   Den Hond huet si gebass. ― The dog bit them

• 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.

• se

From Portuguese se.

si

1. 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

• nunca-si

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

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

si

1. the (primarily used with people, rarely necessary)

   Ke mana perginya si budak nakal yang aku jumpa di taman tadi?

   Where has the brat I just met in the park headed to?

2. definite particle used with adjectives to describe people

   si mati

   the dead (person)

3. a definite article used in names or nicknames

   Si Polan

   John Doe

• sang (more formal)

si (si⁵／si⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄙ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 廁／厕

si

1. Nonstandard spelling of sī.
2. Nonstandard spelling of sǐ.
3. Nonstandard spelling of sì.

• 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.

From French si.

• IPA^(key): /si/

si

1. if

si

1. yes (used to contradict a negative statement)

• IPA^(key): /ziː/

From Old Dutch sia.

• sie, soe, so

si

1. she

• Dutch: zij
  • Afrikaans: sy
• Limburgish: zie

From Old Dutch sia.

• sie

si

1. they (all genders)
   • 1249, Schepenbrief van Bochoute, Velzeke, eastern Flanders:

     Si maken bekent die nu sien ende wesen selen

     They make known to those who are now and will be

• Dutch: zij
• Limburgish: zie

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

si

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of wēsen

• “si (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “si (III)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “si (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

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.

si

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

• se

From Old French se.

si

1. if
2. then (afterwards; following)

• French: si

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

sî

1. Alternative form of sê

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.

si

1. she, it

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi/

si

1. ear

si

1. water

• Marvin Lionel Bender, Topics in Nilo-Saharan linguistics (1989)

si

1. tooth
2. name

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

si

1. (Guernsey) if

• IPA^(key): /siː/

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

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

1. to say

• seie, seia (Nynorsk)

si

1. feminine singular of sin

See the main entry.

si (uncountable)

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

si (uncountable)

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

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

• -is, is

si f

1. feminine singular of sin

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.

• IPA^(key): /siː/
• Homophone: sid

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

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

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

Akin to the first part of Old Norse síþráðr.

si n (definite singular siet, uncountable)

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

Doublet of side.

si ?

1. Used only idiomatically in the prepositional phrase på si.

Clipping of sidan.

si

1. (dialectal) since
2. (dialectal) ago
3. (dialectal) because, for

• “si” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IS, is, SI, si-

• IPA^(key): /siː/

sī

1. Alternative form of sīe

• se
• s' (before a vowel)

From Latin sic.

si

1. so; thus; in such a way
   • c. 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:

     Si li a dit eneslepas

     So he said to him quickly

• French: si
• Norman: si

See se.

si

1. Alternative form of se (if)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi/

si

1. yes, affirmatively
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 84 (facsimile):

     ſi ou non

     yes or no

• Fala: sí
• Galician: si
• Portuguese: sim

sī

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of wesan

• IPA^(key): /si/

si

1. feminine nominative singular of sē

Inherited from Sanskrit शी (śī).

si

1. to lie down

Inherited from Sanskrit श्रि (śri).

si

1. to rest on

The initial consonant tends to geminate after prefixes.

Inherited from Sanskrit सि (si)

si

1. to bind

From Spanish si and Portuguese se and Kabuverdianu si.

si

1. if
2. when

From Spanish sí and Portuguese sim and Kabuverdianu si.

si

1. yes

• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: si

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.