sio

See also: SiO, SIO, sío, sió, Sió, sïo, siõ, šio, și-o, si'o, -sio, and -sio-

Translingual

Symbol

sio

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Siouan languages.

Italian

Etymology

Reshaping of suo by analogy with mio (“my; mine”, 1^st-person singular possessive determiner).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.o/
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: sì‧o

Determiner

sio (feminine sia, masculine plural sii, feminine plural sie) (regional)

1. obsolete form of suo (“his, her, its”, 3^rd-person singular possessive determiner)
   • 1585, Cristoforo Castelletti, Stravaganze d’amore, Act III, scene X; republished in Marcello Teodonio, La letteratura romanesca: Antologia di testi dalla fine del Cinquecento al 1870, 1st edition, Bari: Laterza, October 2004, →ISBN, page 10:

     Dice che vo’ solamente sentì quello che li vo’ dicere questo ’namorato sio, e che non ze pienzi de volé passà più inanzi, ch’aitramente li cacciarà un cortiello nella gola. (Romanesco)

     She says she just wants to hear what that suitor of hers wants to say to her; and that he better not think of going any further, or else she's going to stab him in the throat.

Latin

Noun

siō

1. dative/ablative singular of sion

References

• sio in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si͜uː/
• Rhymes: -i͜uː

Article

sīo

1. alternative form of sēo

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɕɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Syllabification: sio

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Alternative forms

• sió (Kociewie)

Interjection

sio

1. (colloquial, dismissal) shoo (call usually directed at a flying creature to drive it away)

   Synonyms: a kysz, precz, wynocha

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe

Proto-Indo-European *ís

Proto-Indo-European *ḱís

Proto-Balto-Slavic *śís

Proto-Slavic *seder.

Old Polish sio

Polish sio

Inherited from Old Polish sio, from Proto-Slavic *se (“this”).

Pronoun

sio n

1. (obsolete, fossilized) only used in set phrases

Declension

Declension of sio

	singular	plural
nominative	sio	sie
genitive	siego	sich
dative	siemu	sim/siem (archaic)
accusative	sio	sio
instrumental	sim/siem (archaic)	simi/siemi (archaic)
locative	sim/siem (archaic)	sich
vocative	sio	sie

Derived terms

phrases

• a to, a sio
• ni to, ni sio

Further reading

• “si”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “si”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

Swahili

Etymology

From si- +‎ -o, literally "it is not (them/it/those)".

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Verb

sio

1. wa class_(II)/m class_(III)/u class_(XI) inflection of si-

   Antonym: ndio

See also

Emphatic copula negative (si-)

		singular	plural
1st person		simi, siye	sio
2nd person		siwe, siye	sinyi, sio
3rd person	m-wa(I/II)	siye	sio
	m-mi(III/IV)	sio	siyo
	ji-ma(V/VI)	silo	siyo
	ki-vi(VII/VIII)	sicho	sivyo
	n(IX/X)	siyo	sizo
	u(XI)	sio	see n(X) or ma(VI)
	ku(XV/XVII)	siko
	pa(XVI)	sipo
	mu(XVIII)	simo

For a full table, see Appendix:Swahili personal pronouns.

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsi.o]

Interjection

sio

1. alas!

Numeral

sio

1. nine

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tsou

Tsou cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : sio

Alternative forms

• siyo

Etymology

From Proto-Tsouic *θíwa, from Proto-Austronesian *Siwa.

Numeral

sio

1. nine

Uma

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hiwa, from Proto-Austronesian *Siwa.

Numeral

sio

1. nine

Volapük

Etymology

From si (“yes”) +‎ -o (“-ly”, adverbial suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siˈo/

Adverb

sio

1. of course, certainly