sii

sii

1. fish

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

• si, siin, sinh, ŝchi

From Old High German sīn (“to be”) (with some inflections from Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to be”) and *beuną (“to be, exist, become”)), from Proto-Indo-European *es-, *h₁es- (“to be, exist”). Cognate with German sein.

• IPA^(key): /siː/

sii (third-person singular simple present isch, past participle gsii, past subjunctive weer, auxiliary sii)

1. to be
   • 1978, Rolf Lyssey and Christa Maerker, Die Schweizermacher (transcript):

     Wänn sind Si s'letscht Mal dunde gsi?

     When were you last down there?

• “sii” in Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & co., page 85.

From Proto-Uralic *śiŋe.

sii

1. Synonym of siihirsi

• isi

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.i/
• Rhymes: -i
• Stress: sìi
• Hyphenation: si‧i

sii

1. second-person singular imperative form of essere

when preceded by lo, sii can be combined to produce the following forms:

pronoun + sii	Combined form
lo + sii	siilo
la + sii	siila

siī

1. genitive singular of sion

From Old Frisian sidza, sedza, sega, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną. Cognate with West Frisian sizze, Danish sige.

IPA^(key): /siː/

sii (present sii, 2 sg. sairst, 3 sg. sair, past sair, perfect sair)

1. (Sylt) to say

sii

1. they (more than two of them)

• Álgu database

sii

1. water

• Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, volume 29

sii

1. to give

Presumably from si and after English iff.

sii

1. (mathematics, rare) iff

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:sii.