sis

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sis"

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English

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.

Synonyms

• (sister): sissy

Translations

sister

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

  Mandarin: 姐妹 (zh) (jiěmèi)

• 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)
• 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

  Roman: seka (sh)

• Swedish: syrra (sv) c

Pronoun

sis (third-person singular, feminine, nominative case)

1. (chiefly African-American Vernacular, slang) she
   • 2023 February 2, ㅊ (@jaja_girly), Twitter‎^[1]:

     sis is living my delusions, happy for her

   • 2023 February 1, KB (@MzKRB), Twitter‎^[2]:

     The internalized colorism that has inflicted Will is just… Referring to gorgeous Veronica as “Black bald dark-skin woman.” How she didn’t snatch him from his Mama’s highchair I do not know.. Sis dodged all the bullets.. #loveisblindbrazil

   • 2022 September 29, Kahlen Barry (@KahlenBarry), Twitter‎^[3]:

     “Sue Me” sis snapped

   • 2023 January 3, sésé/gee☆♱ (@d0llydeathw1sh), Twitter‎^[4]:

     sis really said fuck the police go off

   • 2023 January 3, amanda 🍒(@ amc0124), Twitter‎^[5]:

     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 🥹

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 *b-ləj (“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): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsis]
• 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

• “sis” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɪs]
• 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

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin sessus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si/

• Audio:

  (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^[6]:

     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
   • 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

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French six.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sis/

Numeral

sis

1. six

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

• (Standard Kankanaey) IPA^(key): /ˈsis/ [ˈsi̞s]
• Rhymes: -is
• 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^[7] (overall work in English), →ISBN, page 128

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /siːs/, [s̠iːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sis/, [sis]

Etymology 1

A contraction of sī vīs, from sī (“if”) + vīs (“you want”), the second person of volō (“to want”). Literally meaning "if you want".

Adverb

sīs (not comparable)

1. if you want, if you wish, if you're willing, if you prefer

   Synonym: sōdēs

Etymology 2

Inflected form of sum (“I am”).

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

Navajo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪ̀s/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Athabaskan *səx. Cognate with Western Apache sis, Chiricahua sis, Jicarilla sis, Plains Apache sis.

Noun

sis (possessed form -ziiz)

1. belt, sash, girdle

   Shiziiz áshłééh.

   I am putting my belt on.

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

Pronoun

sis

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
    • Haitian Creole: sis
    • Louisiana Creole: sis
    • Mauritian Creole: sis
  • Norman: six
• Walloon: shijh
• → Middle English: sice, sis
  • English: sice, sise, size
    • → Japanese: サイス (saisu)

Old High German

Verb

sīs

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of wesan

Romansch

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:

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Noun

sis (definite accusative sisi, plural sisler)

1. (meteorology) fog

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	sis
Definite accusative	sisi
	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

Western Apache

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *səx. Cognate with Navajo sis, Chiricahua sis, Jicarilla sis, Plains Apache sis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sɪ̀s]

Noun

sis (possessed form -ziz)

1. belt

Derived terms

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