sis

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Translingual

Symbol

sis

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Siuslaw terms

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪs
• Homophone: cis

Noun

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, @amc0124 [amanda 🍒], Twitter‎^[1] (post):

     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 🥹

Synonyms

• (sister): sissy

Derived terms

• sismance
• sismantic
• stepsis

Translations

sister

• Arabic: أخت (ar) f, أخوات f pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 姐妹 (zh) (jiěmèi)

• Danish: søs
• Esperanto: franjo (eo)
• Finnish: systeri (fi)
• French: frangine (fr) f, sœurette (fr) f
• Galician: irmá (gl) f
• German: Schwesterchen (de) n
• Japanese: 姉ちゃん (ねえちゃん, nēchan), 姉 (ja) (ねえ, nē) (elder)
• Macedonian: дада f (dada), сестричка f (sestrička), сестрица f (sestrica)
• Malay: kak (ms)
• Portuguese: irmãzinha f, maninha (pt) f (informal)
• Russian: сестрёнка (ru) f (sestrjónka), сестри́ца (ru) f (sestríca), сестри́чка (ru) f (sestríčka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сека

  Latin: seka (sh)

• Swedish: syrra (sv) c
• Thai: พี่สาว (th) (pîi-sǎao), พส. (pɔɔ-sɔ̌ɔ.) (informal)
• Ukrainian: сестриця f (sestrycja), сестричка f (sestryčka)

Etymology 2

Noun

sis

1. Pronunciation spelling of six

Etymology 3

Noun

sis

1. plural of si

See also

• sis boom bah (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• ISS, SSI

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Unknown. Cognate with Turkish sis.

Noun

sis (definite accusative sisi, plural sislər)

1. fog

   Synonyms: duman, çən

Declension

Declension of sis

	singular	plural
nominative	sis	sislər
definite accusative	sisi	sisləri
dative	sisə	sislərə
locative	sisdə	sislərdə
ablative	sisdən	sislərdən
definite genitive	sisin	sislərin

Possessive forms of sis

	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	sisim	sislərim
sənin (“your”)	sisin	sislərin
onun (“his/her/its”)	sisi	sisləri
bizim (“our”)	sisimiz	sislərimiz
sizin (“your”)	sisiniz	sisləriniz
onların (“their”)	sisi or sisləri	sisləri
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	sisimi	sislərimi
sənin (“your”)	sisini	sislərini
onun (“his/her/its”)	sisini	sislərini
bizim (“our”)	sisimizi	sislərimizi
sizin (“your”)	sisinizi	sislərinizi
onların (“their”)	sisini or sislərini	sislərini
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	sisimə	sislərimə
sənin (“your”)	sisinə	sislərinə
onun (“his/her/its”)	sisinə	sislərinə
bizim (“our”)	sisimizə	sislərimizə
sizin (“your”)	sisinizə	sislərinizə
onların (“their”)	sisinə or sislərinə	sislərinə
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	sisimdə	sislərimdə
sənin (“your”)	sisində	sislərində
onun (“his/her/its”)	sisində	sislərində
bizim (“our”)	sisimizdə	sislərimizdə
sizin (“your”)	sisinizdə	sislərinizdə
onların (“their”)	sisində or sislərində	sislərində
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	sisimdən	sislərimdən
sənin (“your”)	sisindən	sislərindən
onun (“his/her/its”)	sisindən	sislərindən
bizim (“our”)	sisimizdən	sislərimizdən
sizin (“your”)	sisinizdən	sislərinizdən
onların (“their”)	sisindən or sislərindən	sislərindən
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	sisimin	sislərimin
sənin (“your”)	sisinin	sislərinin
onun (“his/her/its”)	sisinin	sislərinin
bizim (“our”)	sisimizin	sislərimizin
sizin (“your”)	sisinizin	sislərinizin
onların (“their”)	sisinin or sislərinin	sislərinin

Further reading

• “sis” in Obastan.com.

Bouyei

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si˧˥/

Numeral

Bouyei cardinal numbers

<  3	4	5  >
Cardinal : sis

sis

1. four

Synonyms

• siq (in loanwords from Chinese)

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -is

Etymology 1

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.

Numeral

sis m or f

1. (cardinal number) six

Noun

sis m (plural sisos)

1. six

Etymology 2

Noun

sis

1. plural of si

References

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

Central Asmat

Noun

sis

1. tooth

References

• Randy Lebold, Ronald Kriens and Yunita Susanto, A report on the Bamgi, Kia, and Lower Digul River language survey in Papua, Indonesia (2013), SIL Journal of Language Survey Reports

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɪs]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪs

Contraction

sis

1. contraction of jsi +‎ si

Usage notes

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.

Related terms

• ses

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪs

Verb

sis

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

Anagrams

• ISS

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin sessus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Participle

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

1. past participle of seoir

Verb

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)

Adjective

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.

Further reading

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

Galician

Noun

sis m pl

1. plural of si

Gothic

Romanization

sis

1. romanization of 𐍃𐌹𐍃

Guianese Creole

Etymology

From French six.

Numeral

sis

1. six

References

• Barthelemi, Georges (1995), Dictionnaire pratique créole guyanais - français [Practical Guianese Creole-French Dictionary] (in French), Cayenne: Ibis Rouge Éditions, →ISBN, page 182

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French six.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sis/

Numeral

sis

1. six

References

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

Holikachuk

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *x̯əšʷ.

Noun

sis

1. bear

References

• Alexander, Jimmy; Deacon, John; Deacon, Olga; Kari, James (1978), Holikachuk Noun Dictionary (Preliminary), Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, page 5

Ido

Ido numbers ^(edit)

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

Etymology

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

Numeral

sis

1. six (6)

Kankanaey

Etymology

From si + -s.

Pronunciation

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

Article

sis

1. alternative form of si

See also

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

References

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

Koyukon

Etymology

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

Noun

sis

1. bear

References

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

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Phrase

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

Alternative forms

• sī vīs

See also

• amābō
• obsecrō
• quaesō

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

sīs

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of sum

References

• “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

Louisiana Creole cardinal numbers

<  5	6	7  >
Cardinal : sis

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sis/
• Rhymes: -is

Etymology 1

Inherited from French six (“six”).

Numeral

sis

1. six

Usage notes

• 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.

Etymology 2

Inherited from French sucer (“to suck”).

Verb

sis

1. short form of sisé (“to suck”)

Mauritian Creole

Mauritian Creole cardinal numbers

<  5	6	7  >
Cardinal : sis     Ordinal : siziem

Etymology

From French six.

Numeral

sis

1. six

Derived terms

• nimero sis

Noun

sis

1. clipping of nimero sis (“homosexual”)

References

• Baker, Philip; Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. (1987), Diksiyoner kreol morisyeṅ [Mauritian Creole Dictionary] (in French and English), Paris: L'Harmattan, →ISBN, page 297
• Carpooran, Arnaud (2011), Diksioner Morisien [Mauritian Dictionary] (in Mauritian Creole), second edition, Éditions Le Printemps, →ISBN, page 985

Middle English

Noun

sis

1. alternative form of sys

Navajo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪ̀s/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

sis

1. belt, sash, girdle

   Shiziiz áshłééh.

   I am putting my belt on.

Usage notes

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.

Inflection

Possessives of sis

	singular	duoplural	plural
1st person	shiziiz	nihiziiz	danihiziiz
2nd person	niziiz	nihiziiz	danihiziiz
3rd person	biziiz
4th person (3o)	yiziiz
4th person (3a)	haziiz
Indefinite (3i)	aziiz

Etymology 2

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

Noun

sis

1. (obsolete) hill, mountain

Alternative forms

• tsis

Derived terms

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

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈsiːs/

Pronoun

sīs

1. locative of sii

Old French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sis/

Numeral

cardinal number

6	Previous:	cinc
	Next:	set

sis

1. six

Descendants

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

Old High German

Verb

sīs

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of wesan

Portuguese

Noun

sis

1. plural of si

Réunion Creole French

Etymology

From French six.

Numeral

sis

1. six

Related terms

• sizièm

References

• Armand, Alain (1987), Dictionnaire Kréol rénioné/Français [Reunionese Creole-French Dictionary] (in French), Océan Éditions, →ISBN, page 329

Romansh

Romansh cardinal numbers

<  5	6	7  >
Cardinal : sis

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Numeral

sis

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) six

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English cheese.

Noun

sis

1. cheese

Turkish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

sis (definite accusative sisi, plural sisler)

1. (meteorology) fog

Declension

Declension of sis

singular plural nominative sis sisler definite accusative sisi sisleri dative sise sislere locative siste sislerde ablative sisten sislerden genitive sisin sislerin Possessive forms nominative singular plural 1st singular sisim sislerim 2nd singular sisin sislerin 3rd singular sisi sisleri 1st plural sisimiz sislerimiz 2nd plural sisiniz sisleriniz 3rd plural sisleri sisleri definite accusative singular plural 1st singular sisimi sislerimi 2nd singular sisini sislerini 3rd singular sisini sislerini 1st plural sisimizi sislerimizi 2nd plural sisinizi sislerinizi 3rd plural sislerini sislerini dative singular plural 1st singular sisime sislerime 2nd singular sisine sislerine 3rd singular sisine sislerine 1st plural sisimize sislerimize 2nd plural sisinize sislerinize 3rd plural sislerine sislerine locative singular plural 1st singular sisimde sislerimde 2nd singular sisinde sislerinde 3rd singular sisinde sislerinde 1st plural sisimizde sislerimizde 2nd plural sisinizde sislerinizde 3rd plural sislerinde sislerinde ablative singular plural 1st singular sisimden sislerimden 2nd singular sisinden sislerinden 3rd singular sisinden sislerinden 1st plural sisimizden sislerimizden 2nd plural sisinizden sislerinizden 3rd plural sislerinden sislerinden genitive singular plural 1st singular sisimin sislerimin 2nd singular sisinin sislerinin 3rd singular sisinin sislerinin 1st plural sisimizin sislerimizin 2nd plural sisinizin sislerinizin 3rd plural sislerinin sislerinin

Derived terms

• sisli

References

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

Upper Kuskokwim

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *səs.

Noun

sis

1. belt

References

• Collins, Raymond L.; Petruska, Betty (1979), Dinak'i (Our Words). Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan Junior Dictionary, Anchorage, Alaska: National Bilingual Materials Development Center, University of Alaska, page 7

Western Apache

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sɪ̀s]

Noun

sis (possessed form -ziz)

1. belt

Inflected forms

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

Derived terms

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