sih

See also: SIH, SiH, Sih, sìh, sĭh, sîh, sįh, and -sĭh

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Sîshëë.

Symbol

sih

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Sîshëë terms

Cayuga

Adverb

sih

1. over there

References

• Marianne Mithun; Reginald Henry (1982), Wadęwayę́stanih - A Cayuga Teaching Grammar, 3rd edition, Woodland Cultural Centre, published 2015, page 97

Lower Tanana

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *šiˑ. Cognate with Navajo shí, Ahtna sii.

Pronoun

sih (Chena)

1. alternative form of si (“I, me”)

References

• Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 496

Navajo

Etymology

∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + sih (“hope”, noun stem used as a verb stem)

Noun

sih

1. hope, mercy
2. a chance
3. life

Verb

sih

1. (with bił) to be satisfied with it

Conjugation

Paradigm: Momentaneous (∅/yi), third person only.

	3rd person singular
IMPERFECTIVE	sih
PERFECTIVE	yísih
FUTURE	doosih
ITERATIVE	násih
OPTATIVE	wósih

Related terms

• hasih

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sex/, [seç]

Verb

sih

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of sēon

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sik, from Proto-Germanic *sek, whence also Old Saxon sik, Old Norse sik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s̠ix/

Pronoun

sih

1. self

Inflection

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle High German: sich
  • Bavarian: si, sich
    • Cimbrian: zich
  • Central Franconian: sich, sech
    • Hunsrik: sich
    • Luxembourgish: sech
  • East Central German: sich
    • Zipser German: ßich
  • German: sich
  • Yiddish: זיך (zikh)
  • → Middle Dutch: sich
    • → Dutch: zich
  • → Middle Low German: sik, sek (adapted to native mik, dik)
    • Low German: sik, sick (variant spelling), sük, sück (East Frisian, northern Emsland), sek, seck (Eastphalian, East Prussian), sich (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)

Slovak

Etymology

Probably from Russian сиг (sig).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /six/, [ˈsix]
• Rhymes: -ix

Noun

sih m animal

1. whitefish (fish of the genus Coregonus)

Declension

Declension of sih
(patterns chlap (singular) and dub (plural))

	singular	plural
nominative	sih	sihy
genitive	siha	sihov
dative	sihovi	sihom
accusative	siha	sihy
locative	sihovi	sihoch
instrumental	sihom	sihmi

Further reading

• “sih”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026