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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

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

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

1. Alternative form of es

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

• Krause & Slocum reconstruct IPA^(key): /es/ with a short vowel[1]

ies

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

     Ies Varthata. Ille fecit.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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

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

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

1. someone's (indeterminate correlative of genitives)

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

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈie̯s/, [ˈie̞̯s̠]
• IPA^(key): /ˈi.es/, [ˈi.e̞s̠]
• Rhymes: -ies
• Syllabification^(key): ies, i‧es

ies

1. yoke

   Synonyms: (for people) korento, niskakorento, ämmänlänki

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

   Synonyms: sorto, orjuus

   ikeen alla ― under the yoke

   • 2006 [1742], David Hume, translated by Juha Koivisto, 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.

Colloquial, uncommon:

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “иго”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

• “ies”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• eis, esi-, sei, sie

ies

1. third-person singular/plural future indicative of iet

From Latin exeo. Compare Aromanian es, Romanian ieși.

ies

1. I leave, exit

• ișiri / ișǫri

ies

1. second-person singular imperfect indicative of estre

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

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

From Latin ossum, popular variant of os.

ies m

1. (Sursilvan) bone

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

• IPA^(key): /iə̯s/

ies c (plural iezen)

1. bait

   Synonym: lokies

2. carrion

• lokies