sis

sis

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Siuslaw terms

• IPA^(key): /sɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪs
• Homophone: cis

sis (plural sises or sisses)

1. (informal) Clipping of sister.

   big sis

   • 1980, Stephen King, The Wedding Gig:

     My sis is tying the knot. I want you to play for the reception.

   • 2023 January 3, amanda 🍒(@ amc0124), Twitter‎^[1]:

     Call me when ur 3 year old daughter knows SZA lyrics, girl said “you still playin the pick me, I’m still playin the victim” we don’t care if it’s backwards sis learned that all on her own 🥹

• (sister): sissy

• sis boom bah (etymologically unrelated)

• ISS, SSI

Unknown. Cognate with Turkish sis.

sis (definite accusative sisi, plural sislər)

1. fog

   Synonyms: duman, çən

• “sis” in Obastan.com.

From Proto-Tai *siːᴮ (“four”), from Middle Chinese 四 (MC sijH, “four”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pV-lij (“four”). Cognate with Thai สี่ (sìi), Northern Thai ᩈᩦ᩵, Lao ສີ່ (sī), Lü ᦉᦲᧈ (ṡii¹), Tai Dam ꪎꪲ꪿, Shan သီႇ (sìi), Tai Nüa ᥔᥤᥱ (sǐ), Ahom 𑜏𑜣 (sī), Zhuang seiq.

• IPA^(key): /si˧˥/

Bouyei cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : sis

sis

1. four

• siq (in loanwords from Chinese)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsis]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -is

Catalan numbers ^(edit)

	60
←  5	6	7  →
Cardinal: sis     Ordinal (Central): sisè     Ordinal (Valencian): sisé     Ordinal (Latinate): sext     Ordinal abbreviation (Central): 6è     Ordinal abbreviation (Valencian): 6é     Ordinal abbreviation (Latinate): 6t     Multiplier: sèxtuple
Catalan Wikipedia article on 6

Inherited from Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs.

sis m or f

1. (cardinal number) six

sis m (plural sisos)

1. six

sis

1. plural of si

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “sis”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɪs]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɪs

sis

1. contraction of jsi +‎ si

When using a reflexive verb in the second-person singular past form and in conditional, the auxiliary verb být (“to be”) is replaced with just -s appended to the reflexive pronoun se, si. The full form “jsi se”, “jsi si” is proscribed as hypercorrect.

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɪs

sis

1. inflection of sissen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• ISS

Inherited from Latin sessus.

• IPA^(key): /si/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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sis (feminine sise, masculine plural sis, feminine plural sises)

1. past participle of seoir

sis

1. (rare) first/second-person singular past historic of seoir
   • 1785, Charles Baudelaire, Annales poétique depuis l’origine de la poésie françoise, Tome 33‎^[2]:

     Au carabet, lorſque je ſis à table,
     Je ne bois qu’à ma ſoif, & que le cœur m’en dit:
     Mais quand Margot me tient au lit,
     Tout-ci, tout-ca,
     Par-ci, par-là !.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

sis (feminine sise, masculine plural sis, feminine plural sises)

1. (law or literary) located, seated
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[3], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     Et il indiqua une méchante masure sise à Barneville, près d'Aumale, qui ne rapportait pas grand-chose.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 4, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:

     Par les larges hublots du lab, sis au sixième étage, la vue dominait une mer orangée de tuiles en terre cuite qui rappelaient que cette ville avait été, avant d'être « civinisée », une plutôt avenante cité provençale.

     The view from the lab's big windows, located on the sixth floor, overlooked a sea of orange terracotta tiles, which were a reminder that before it was "civinized", this had been a rather charming Provençal town.

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

sis m pl

1. plural of si

sis

1. romanization of 𐍃𐌹𐍃

From French six.

• IPA^(key): /sis/

sis

1. six

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[4], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 180

Ido numbers ^(edit)

	60
←  5	6	7  →
Cardinal: sis     Ordinal: sisesma     Adverbial: sisfoye     Multiplier: sisopla     Fractional: sisima

From English six, French six, German sechs, Spanish seis, Italian sei, Russian шесть (šestʹ), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs.

sis

1. six (6)

From si +‎ -s.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsis/ [ˈsi̞s]
  • Rhymes: -is
• (parts of Bauko, Sabangan and Tadian) IPA^(key): /ˈhih/ [ˈhi̞h]
  • Rhymes: -ih
• Syllabification: sis

sis

1. alternative form of si

• (oblique arguments) sin, si, sis, ed, en, en da

• Janet L. Allen (2014), Kankanaey: A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis‎^[5] (overall work in English), →ISBN, page 128

From Proto-Athabaskan *x̯əšʷ. Cognate with Navajo shash, Ahtna sos.

sis

1. bear

• Thompson, Chad Lawrence (1989), Voice and obviation in Athabaskan and other languages (dissertation), University of Oregon, page 42

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsiːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsis]

Contraction of sī vīs, from sī (“if”) + vīs (“you want”), the second person of volō (“to want”); literally, "if you want".

sīs sg (plural sultis)

1. (when addressing a single person) if you want, if you please, if you're willing, if you prefer

   Synonym: sōdēs

• sī vīs

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sīs

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of sum

• “sis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Louisiana Creole cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : sis

• IPA^(key): /sis/
• Rhymes: -is

Inherited from French six (“six”).

sis

1. six

• This word is used independently of nouns.
• When preceding nouns, si is used for consonant-initial words, and siz is used for vowel-initial words. Compare French etymon six.

Inherited from French sucer (“to suck”).

sis

1. short form of sisé (“to suck”)

Mauritian Creole cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : sis     Ordinal : siziem

From French six.

sis

1. six

sis

1. alternative form of sys

• IPA^(key): /sɪ̀s/

From Proto-Athabaskan *səxʸ. Cognate with Western Apache sis, Chiricahua sis, Mescalero sis, Jicarilla sis, Plains Apache sis, Ahtna sez.

sis

1. belt, sash, girdle

   Shiziiz áshłééh.

   I am putting my belt on.

The possessed forms of this noun are based on the stem -ziiz rather than -sis. Thus shiziiz (“my belt”), biziiz (“his/her/their belt”), et cetera, not *shisis, *bisis.

Cognate with Tsuut'ina sis, Beaver shís, hís, Sekani hís, Chipewyan sheθ, Carrier shuθ.

sis

1. (obsolete) hill, mountain

• tsis

• Sis Naateel (“Wide Belt Mesa NM, Sisnathyel Mesa”)
• Sisnaajiní (“Blanca Peak”)
• Tsisnaajiní (“Blanca Peak”)

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈsiːs/

sīs

1. locative of sii

From Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs.

• IPA^(key): /sis/

cardinal number

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sis

1. six

• Middle French: six
  • French: six
    • Haitian Creole: sis
    • Louisiana Creole: sis
    • Mauritian Creole: sis
  • Norman: six
• Walloon: shijh
• → Middle English: sys, sice, sis, sise, syis, syse, sysse
  • English: sice, sise, size
    • → Japanese: サイス (saisu)
  • Middle Scots: syce, syis, sys

sīs

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of wesan

Romansh cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : sis

• seis (Surmiran)
• ses (Puter, Vallader)

From Latin sex (compare Spanish seis), from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs.

sis

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) six

From English cheese.

sis

1. cheese

From Ottoman Turkish سیس (sis, “freckle, spot; mist, fog”), origin unknown.

• Audio:

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sis (definite accusative sisi, plural sisler)

1. (meteorology) fog

• sisli

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “sis”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

From Proto-Athabaskan *səx. Cognate with Navajo sis (-ziiz), Chiricahua sis (-sis), Mescalero sis (-siseh), Jicarilla sis (-ziz), Plains Apache sis.

• IPA^(key): [sɪ̀s]

sis (possessed form -ziz)

1. belt

• shiziz = "my belt"
• biziz = "her/his/their belt"

• sis bá dahs'áné = "belt buckle"
• -zizt'ah = "waist"