shi

Abbreviation of English Tashelhit.

shi

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tashelhit terms

Clipping of shibire. Coined by Japanese-Canadian geneticist and zoologist David Suzuki, the person who also coined "shibire".

shi (uncountable)

1. (genetics) Abbreviation of shibire.

• IPA^(key): /ʃaɪ/ (expressly not /ʃi/)

shi

1. (furry fandom, rare) Alternative form of sie (gender-neutral pronoun).
   • 1999 november 20, "Chakat Goldfur" (username), Furry Art on Ebay...horrible shameless plug, alt.fan.furry, Usenet:

     The mother was Chakat Goldfur and the sire was Garrek Redfox (foxtaur) so she^[sic] has the same red fur but cougar-like markings. Of course shi’s still only a cub yet, but if shi grows up to look anything like the your Jaguar-Vixen, shi’s going to be a heartbreaker!

   • 2001 January 25, "Achowth Keciyl" (username), quoting "A. Seraph" (username), Fur: The one and only Herm Gengimal, in fur.artwork.erotica, Usenet:

     > Unlike most Furry Hermaphrodites I've seen, Clash is fairly

     > androgynous. Shi is remarkable in hir modesty.

     >

     > But shi IS rather naughty, as you can see.

   • 2006, Kenneth Fox, Joined in Mind and Body, Kenneth Fox, →ISBN, page 230:

     Dropping hir forebody down just a little, shi bent over double at the waist. Andrew's eyes blinked open as whiskers met his cheeks just before feline lips. He purred to hir and reached up to caress hir back as shi kissed him ...

• see Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns
• hir (objective form)

From shit + -h.

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪ(ː)/

shi (uncountable)

1. Apocopic form of shit.

shi

1. Apocopic form of shit.

• shi shi, shi-shi (etymologically unrelated)

• -ish, His, Hsi, IHS, Ish, his, ish

From Proto-Albanian *śūh, from Proto-Indo-European *suh₂-s < *sh₂ew- (“to rain”). Compare Ancient Greek ὕει (húei, “it rains”), Hittite [script needed] (ishuwāi, “(s)he pours out, spills”), Tocharian B suwaṃ (“it rains”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ʃi]

shi m (plural shira, definite shiu, definite plural shirat)

1. rain

• “shi”, in FMGJSH: Fjalor i madh i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2026

shi

1. she
2. hers

From Latin sic. Compare to Daco-Romanian și.

• IPA^(key): [ʃi]

shi

1. and
2. also

shi

1. what (inanimate interrogative pronoun)
2. nothing (inanimate negative pronoun)

• Curnow, T. J. (1997). A grammar of Awa Pit (Cuaiquer): An indigenous language of south-western Colombia. The Australian National University.

From Proto-Central Naga *a-ʃaʔ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sja-n.

• IPA^(key): /siʔ˩/, [ʃiʔ˩]

shi

1. meat, flesh

• IPA^(key): /si˧/, [ʃi˧]

shi

1. yam

• Bruhn, Daniel Wayne (2014), A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Central Naga‎^[1], Berkeley: University of California, pages 58, 70, 181
• Clark, Mary M. (1893), Ao Naga grammar with illustrative phrases and vocabulary, Molung: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, pages 121, 138

From Proto-Athabaskan *šiˑ.

shi

1. I, me (first-person singular)

• sh-

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sij.

shi

1. to die

• Ross Perlin (2019), A Grammar of Trung‎^[2], Santa Barbara: University of California

shi

1. H-system spelling of ŝi

• IPA^(key): /ʃí/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʃɪ́]

shi m sg (feminine ita, plural su)

1. he (3rd person singular pronoun)

• másà (3rd person singular masculine indirect object enclitic pronoun)
• shí (3rd person singular masculine independent object pronoun)
• -sà (3rd person singular masculine possessive enclitic pronoun)

shi

1. The hiragana syllable し (shi) or the katakana syllable シ (shi) in Hepburn romanization.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ts(j)i(j) ~ tsjaj (“ten”).

shi

1. ten

shi

1. tooth

• Goldberg, Justin; Asadik, Habte; Bekama, Jiregna; Mengistu, Mulat (2016), Gwama – English Dictionary‎^[3], SIL International

shi (shi⁵ / shi⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄕ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 匙
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 殖
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 𥫽

shi

1. nonstandard spelling of shī
2. nonstandard spelling of shí
3. nonstandard spelling of shǐ
4. nonstandard spelling of shì

• 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.

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪ/

shi

1. (Southern Scots, personal) she

Used alongside the English she (/ʃiː/).

• hei

shi (plural shi pë)

1. feces, castings, poop

• Lizot, Jacques (2004), Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmɨ‎^[4] (in Spanish), Vicariato apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): [ʃi]

shi

1. (transitive) to tear, to slash, to scratch

• Hall, Katherine (2007), “-iši-”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[5], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021