tsi

tsi

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Tsimshian.

From Latin quid. Compare Romanian ce.

tsi (interrogative)

1. what

• IPA^(key): [t͡sí]

tsi

1. arm

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

tsi

1. water (including in the form of a river or rain)

   dé asi tsi me — put one's hand in the water

   • 2006, Aspect and Modality in Kwa Languages, →ISBN, page 158:

     mia-nyrɔ-e ɖé tɔ-a me né wò-a-no tsi kú

     1PL:1RR-immerse-3SG ALL river-DEF containing.region LINK 3SG-1RR-drink water die

     We should immerse him in the river so that he would drown. (literally "die by water")

   • 2006, Aspect and Modality in Kwa Languages, →ISBN, page 187:

     tsi dî bé ye-a-dza

     water want COMP LOG-SUBJV-ooze

     'Rain wants to fall' i.e. 'it is about to rain'.

tsi

1. extinguish
2. hang
3. suspend

From Proto-Bantu *-tɪ̀ (“say, quote”).

-tsi

1. to say

tsi

1. to (with translocative t-)

From Proto-Bantu *-tɪ̀ (“say, quote”).

-tsi

1. to say

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Hmong *tsjɨᴮ (“what”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʂi˧/

tsi

1. used in dab tsi (“what”)

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 29.