sih

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

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

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
  • hasih

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

Slovak

Etymology

Probably from Russian сиг (sig).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [six]

Noun

sih m anim

  1. whitefish (fish of the genus Coregonus)

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, 2024
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