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sia

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sia"

English

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Etymology

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From Malay sial.

Pronunciation

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Particle

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sia

  1. (Singlish, Manglish) Tagged at the end of a sentence to express discontent, shock, exhaustion or exasperation.
    — You can’t find your pencils? Maybe someone stole them.
    — For what sia?
    • 2004, joshley, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):
      […] Really disappointed siah […] The damage is done and no explanation will be accepted...... damn stupid!

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References

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  • Soh, Ying Qi, Lee, Junwen, Tan, Ying-Ying (2022) “Ethnicity and Tone Production on Singlish Particles”, in Languages, volume 7, number 3, →DOI

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Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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sia

  1. (archaic) inflection of ser:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
    Synonyms: sigui, siga

Derived terms

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Conjunction

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sia

  1. whether it be; be it
    Synonym: siga
    • 1961, Joan Lluís, El meu Pallars: El Pallars Sobirà:
      Degotalls que s'estimballen des dels cingles fins al riu, i calmosament davallen, sia hivern o sia estiu.
      Stalactites that fling themselves from the cliffs into the river, and calmly descend, be it winter or be it summer.
    • 1975, Narcís Xifra i Riera, Montserrat, juliol de 1936:
      El cas és que posaren altre cop en pràctica allò de destruir tot el que havien fet els altres, ja sia bo o dolent, i es complagueren amb la revenja […]
      The thing is that they reimplemented that destruction of everything that others had made, whether it be good or bad, and they were pleased with revenge […]

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Chuukese

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Pronoun

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sia

  1. we (inclusive)

Adjective

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sia

  1. we are (inclusive)
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Present and past tense Negative tense Future Negative future Distant future Negative determinate
Singular First person ua use upwe usap upwap ute
Second person ka, ke kose, kese kopwe, kepwe kosap, kesap kopwap, kepwap kote, kete
Third person a ese epwe esap epwap ete
Plural First person aua (exclusive)
sia (inclusive)		 ause (exclusive)
sise (inclusive)		 aupwe (exclusive)
sipwe (inclusive)		 ausap (exclusive)
sisap (inclusive)		 aupwap (exclusive)
sipwap (inclusive)		 aute (exclusive)
site (inclusive)
Second person oua ouse oupwe ousap oupwap oute
Third person ra, re rese repwe resap repwap rete


Eritai

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Noun

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sia

  1. water
  2. river

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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si +‎ -a. Possibly under influence of Slavic (Polish swój, Russian свой (svoj), Belarusian свой (svoj)) and Germanic (German sein).

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • IPA(key): [ˈsia]
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: si‧a

Pronoun

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sia (accusative singular sian, plural siaj, accusative plural siajn)

  1. belonging to the subject of the sentence
    Johano donis al Alfredo sian kukon.
    John gave Alfred his (John's) cake.
    • 1910, L. L. Zamenhof, Proverbaro Esperanta:
      Sia estas kara pli ol la najbara.
      One's own is dearer than the neighbor's.

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Garo

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Verb

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sia

  1. to die

Interlingua

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Verb

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sia

  1. imperative of esser

Conjunction

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sia

  1. whether (used the first time in a sentence)
  2. or (used the second time in a sentence)

Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish sír.

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Adjective

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sia

  1. longer
  2. further

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsi.a/
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: sì‧a

Verb

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sia

  1. inflection of essere:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Conjunction

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sia ... sia ...

  1. both ... and ..
  2. either ... or ..

Synonyms

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  • sia ... che ...

Anagrams

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Kanakanabu

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Kanakanabu cardinal numbers
 <  8 9 10  > 
    Cardinal : sia

Etymology

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From Proto-Austronesian *Siwa.

Numeral

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sia

  1. nine

Latin

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Noun

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sia

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sion

References

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  • sia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “sia”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Mambae

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *siwa.

Numeral

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sia

  1. nine

North Frisian

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian sē, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi. The distinction between “sea” (feminine) and “lake” (masculine) is based on German See, where it developed through mixing of Low and High German usages. Older North Frisian, like Middle Low German, had only the feminine. There may have been another word for “lake”, although the North Frisian region has no natural lakes of dimensions that would necessitate to distinguish them from ponds etc.

Noun

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sia m (plural sian)

  1. (Föhr-Amrum) lake

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sia f (plural sian)

  1. (Föhr-Amrum) sea

Usage notes

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  • The reduced article a may still be used with the feminine; cf. at for notes. This blurs the gender distinction. Some speakers therefore go a step further and use the Germanized form see for the masculine.

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Norwegian dialectal sia, from Old Norse síðan. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk sidan.

Adverb

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sia

  1. Alternative form of siden

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Pronunciation

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Adverb

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sia

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of sidan

Old Dutch

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Etymology

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Along with siu (“she”), from Proto-Germanic *iz and *hiz.

Pronoun

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sia

  1. they

Declension

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Old Dutch personal pronouns
1st person Singular Plural
Nominative ik, ic, ih wī, wīr
Accusative mī, mik, *mic uns, unsig
Genitive mīn unsa, *unser
Dative mī uns, unsig
2nd person Singular Plural
Nominative thu, tu gī, ir
Accusative thī, thik, *thic iu,
Genitive thīn iuwa, *iuwer
Dative thī iu
3rd person Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative hē, hie sia it
Accusative imo sia it
Genitive sīn, is iro is
Dative imo iro imo
Plural
Nominative sia, sie (masc. plur.)
Accusative sia, sie (masc. plur.)
Genitive iro
Dative im

Descendants

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  • Middle Dutch: si, sie

Further reading

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  • “sia (II)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old Saxon

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Along with siu (“she”), from Proto-Germanic *iz and *hiz.

Pronoun

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sia m or f

  1. she (accusative)
  2. they

Declension

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Old Saxon personal pronouns
Personal pronouns
Singular 1. 2. 3. m 3. f 3. n
Nominative ik thū hē siu it
Accusative mī, me, mik thī, thik ina sia
Dative mī thī imu iru it
Genitive mīn thīn is ira is
Dual 1. 2. - - -
Nominative wit git - - -
Accusative unk ink - - -
Dative
Genitive unkero, unka

inker, inka

- - -
Plural 1. 2. 3. m 3. f 3. n
Nominative wī, we gī, ge sia sia siu
Accusative ūs, unsik eu, iu, iuu
Dative ūs im
Genitive ūser euwar, iuwer, iuwar, iuwero, iuwera iro

Descendants

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  • Middle Low German: sê, su, sia
    • Dutch Low Saxon: zee
    • German Low German: se
    • Plautdietsch: see

Scottish Gaelic

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Scottish Gaelic numbers (edit)
60[a], [b]
 ←  5 6 7  → 
    Cardinal: sia
    Standalone: a sia
    Ordinal: siathamh
    Ordinal abbreviation: 6mh
    Personal: sianar
    Multiplier: sia-fillte

Alternative forms

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  • (Islay, South Argyll) sè

Etymology

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From Old Irish sé, from Proto-Celtic *swexs, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. Compare Irish sé, Manx shey.

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /ʃia/

Numeral

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sia

  1. six

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
sia shia
after "an", t-sia
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “sia”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 sé”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Sotho

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *-tíga.

Verb

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sia

  1. to leave

Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Swedish sīa, sēa, from Old Norse sjá, from Proto-Germanic *sehwaną.

Verb

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sia (present siar, preterite siade, supine siat, imperative sia)

  1. to foretell; to tell the future

Conjugation

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Conjugation of sia (weak)
Active Passive
Infinitive sia sias
Supine siat siats
Imperative sia —
Imper. plural1 sien —
Present Past Present Past
Indicative siar siade sias siades
Ind. plural1 sia siade sias siades
Subjunctive2 sie siade sies siades
Participles
Present participle siande
Past participle —
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Synonyms

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Further reading

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  • siare in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

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Ternate

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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sia

  1. (transitive) to draw water (from a well, etc.)
  2. (transitive) to drag

Conjugation

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Conjugation of sia
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st tosia fosia misia
2nd nosia nisia
3rd Masculine osia isia, yosia†
Feminine mosia
Neuter isia
† - archaic

References

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

Tetum

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Etymology

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From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *siwa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *siwa, from Proto-Austronesian *Siwa.

Numeral

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sia

  1. nine

Tok Pisin

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Etymology

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From English chair.

Noun

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sia

  1. chair

Venetan

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Verb

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sia

  1. inflection of èser:
    1. first-person singular, third-person singular and third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular and plural imperative

White Hmong

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not mentioned by Ratliff at all. Maybe related to siv (“sash”) and similar words?”

Verb

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sia

  1. to wrap around the waist
    sia siv ― to put on a sash

Etymology 2

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Seems to be considered native Hmongic by Ratliff, though no reconstructed proto-form is given.[1] Same lemma as Etymology 1 (the classifier being "string, strip" suggests a semantic relation)?”

Noun

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sia (classifier: txoj)

  1. life
  2. breath
  3. living being

References

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  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎[2], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 295.
  1. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25

Yámana

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Noun

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sia

  1. foam

Yami

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Etymology

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From Proto-Austronesian *si-da. Compare Tagalog sila (“they, them”)

Pronoun

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sia

  1. they
  2. he, she, it
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