ies

See also: Ies, IES, íes, ieš, -ies, i. e. S., and i.e.S.

English

Noun

ies

1. (rare) plural of i, the name of the letter I.
   • 1856, Goold Brown, The First Lines of English Grammar, page 10:

     These names […] may form regular plurals; thus, Aes, Bees, Cees, Dees, Ees, Effs, Gees, Aitches, Ies, Jays, Kays, Ells, Ems, Ens, Oes, Pees, Kues, Ars, Esses, Tees, Ues, Vees, Double-ues, Exes, Wies, Zees.

   • 1998, Ricardo Corona, "These Esses" ("Esses esses"), in Other Shores (Outras Praias), translated by Ricardo Corona & Charles Perrone

     to say (full of ees, ies, ues) that plurals are always two or more

Anagrams

• -ise, -sie, EIS, EIs, ESI, I'se, ISE, sei, sie

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Aromanian

Verb

ies (third-person singular present indicative iasi/iase, past participle ishitã)

1. Alternative form of es

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Crimean Gothic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *iz. Cognate with Gothic 𐌹𐍃 (is), German er.

Pronunciation

• Krause & Slocum reconstruct IPA^(key): /es/ with a short vowel

Pronoun

ies

1. he
   • 1589, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, letter

     Ies Varthata. Ille fecit.

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Esperanto

Etymology

From i- (indeterminate correlative prefix) +‎ -es (correlative suffix of genitives).

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [ˈies]
• Rhymes: -ies
• Hyphenation: i‧es

Pronoun

ies (plural ies, accusative singular ies, accusative plural ies)

1. someone's (indeterminate correlative of genitives)

Derived terms

• ies ajn (“anyone's”)
• iesaĵo (“property, s.t. belonging to s.o.”)

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Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *iges, borrowed from Proto-Slavic *jьgo (gen. *jьga, *jьžese; compare Old East Slavic иго (igo), gen. ига (iga), *ижесе (*ižese)), from earlier *jъgo (gen. *jъga, *jъgese), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *juga-, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈie̯s/, [ˈie̞̯s̠]
• Rhymes: -ies
• Syllabification^(key): ies

Noun

ies

1. yoke

   Synonyms: (for people) korento, niskakorento, ämmänlänki

2. (figuratively) yoke, restraint, burden, load; repression, slavery, oppression, persecution, tyranny

   Synonyms: sorto, orjuus

   • 2006 [1742], David Hume, Juha Koivisto, transl., Esseitä, →ISBN, Taitojen ja tieteiden kehityksestä ja synnystä [Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences]:

     Mutta kamppailtuaan aikansa tämän ieksen poistamiseksi ihmiskunta on palannut lähes aiempaan tilanteeseen; Eurooppa on nykyään rakenteeltaan kuin suurennettu kopio Kreikasta.

     But mankind, having at length thrown off this yoke, affairs are now returned nearly to the same situation as before, and Europe is at present a copy at large, of what Greece was formerly a pattern in miniature.

   ikeen alla ― under the yoke

Declension

Inflection of ies (Kotus type 41*D/vieras, k- gradation)
nominative		ies	ikeet
genitive		ikeen	ikeiden ikeitten
partitive		iestä	ikeitä
illative		ikeeseen	ikeisiin
		singular	plural
nominative		ies	ikeet
accusative	nom.	ies	ikeet
	gen.	ikeen
genitive		ikeen	ikeiden ikeitten
partitive		iestä	ikeitä
inessive		ikeessä	ikeissä
elative		ikeestä	ikeistä
illative		ikeeseen	ikeisiin ikeihinrare
adessive		ikeellä	ikeillä
ablative		ikeeltä	ikeiltä
allative		ikeelle	ikeille
essive		ikeenä	ikeinä
translative		ikeeksi	ikeiksi
instructive		—	ikein
abessive		ikeettä	ikeittä
comitative		—	ikeineen

Possessive forms of ies (type vieras)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	ikeeni	ikeemme
2nd person	ikeesi	ikeenne
3rd person	ikeensä

Possibly informal:

Inflection of ies (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative		ies	iekset
genitive		ieksen	iesten ieksien
partitive		iestä	ieksiä
illative		iekseen	ieksiin
		singular	plural
nominative		ies	iekset
accusative	nom.	ies	iekset
	gen.	ieksen
genitive		ieksen	iesten ieksien
partitive		iestä	ieksiä
inessive		ieksessä	ieksissä
elative		ieksestä	ieksistä
illative		iekseen	ieksiin
adessive		ieksellä	ieksillä
ablative		iekseltä	ieksiltä
allative		iekselle	ieksille
essive		ieksenä	ieksinä
translative		iekseksi	ieksiksi
instructive		—	ieksin
abessive		ieksettä	ieksittä
comitative		—	ieksineen

Possessive forms of ies (type vastaus)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	iekseni	ieksemme
2nd person	ieksesi	ieksenne
3rd person	ieksensä

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “иго”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress

Anagrams

• eis, esi-, sei, sie

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Latvian

Verb

ies

1. 3rd person singular future indicative form of iet
2. 3rd person plural future indicative form of iet

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Old French

Verb

ies

1. second-person singular imperfect indicative of estre

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Romanian

Verb

ies

1. inflection of ieși:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan) oss
• (Surmiran) òss
• (Puter, Vallader) öss

Etymology

From Latin ossum, popular variant of os.

Noun

ies m

1. (Sursilvan) bone

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West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian ēs, from Proto-Germanic *ēsą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iə̯s/

Noun

ies c (plural iezen)

1. bait

   Synonym: lokies

2. carrion

Derived terms

• lokies