shi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "shi"

Etymology 1

Clipping of shibire. Coined by Japanese-Canadian geneticist and zoologist David Suzuki, the person who also coined "shibire".

Noun

shi (uncountable)

(genetics) Abbreviation of shibire.

Derived terms

shibire

shi(ts)
shi(ts1)
shi(ts2)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃaɪ/ (expressly not /ʃi/)

Pronoun

shi

(furry fandom, rare) Alternative form of sie (gender-neutral pronoun)
- 1999 november 20, "Chakat Goldfur" (username), Furry Art on Ebay...horrible shameless plug, alt.fan.furry, Usenet:
  The mother was Chakat Goldfur and the sire was Garrek Redfox (foxtaur) so she^[sic] has the same red fur but cougar-like markings. Of course shi’s still only a cub yet, but if shi grows up to look anything like the your Jaguar-Vixen, shi’s going to be a heartbreaker!
- 2001 January 25, "Achowth Keciyl" (username), quoting "A. Seraph" (username), Fur: The one and only Herm Gengimal, in fur.artwork.erotica, Usenet:
  > Unlike most Furry Hermaphrodites I've seen, Clash is fairly
  
  > androgynous. Shi is remarkable in hir modesty.
  
  >
  
  > But shi IS rather naughty, as you can see.
- 2006, Kenneth Fox, Joined in Mind and Body, Kenneth Fox, →ISBN, page 230:
  Dropping hir forebody down just a little, shi bent over double at the waist. Andrew's eyes blinked open as whiskers met his cheeks just before feline lips. He purred to hir and reached up to caress hir back as shi kissed him ...

Synonyms

see Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns
hir (objective form)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃɪ(ː)/

Noun

shi (uncountable)

Apocopic form of shit

Interjection

shi

Apocopic form of shit

Anagrams

-ish, His, Hsi, IHS, Ish, his, ish

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Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *śūh, from Proto-Indo-European *suh₂-s < *sh₂ew- (“to rain”). Compare Ancient Greek ὕει (húei, “it rains”), Hittite [script needed] (ishuwāi, “(s)he pours out, spills”), Tocharian B suwaṃ (“it rains”).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ʃi]

Noun

shi m (plural shira, definite shiu, definite plural shirat)

rain

Declension

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	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	shi	shiu	shira	shirat
accusative	shi	shiun	shira	shirat
dative	shiu	shiut	shirave	shirave
ablative	shiu	shiut	shirash	shirave

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Declension of shi

References

[1]
Stefan Schumacher & Joachim Matzinger, Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2013), 226.

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Etymology

From Latin sic. Compare to Daco-Romanian și.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ʃi]

Conjunction

shi

and
also

Pronoun

shi

I, me (first-person singular)

Related terms

sh-

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *səj.

Verb

shi

to die

References

Ross Perlin (2019) A Grammar of Trung‎, Santa Barbara: University of California

Pronoun

shi

H-system spelling of ŝi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃí/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʃɪ́]

Pronoun

shi m sg (feminine ita, plural su)

he (3rd person singular pronoun)

Romanization

shi

The hiragana syllable し (shi) or the katakana syllable シ (shi) in Hepburn romanization.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ts(j)i(j) ~ tsjaj (“ten”).

Numeral

shi

ten

Noun

shi

tooth

References

Goldberg, Justin, Asadik, Habte, Bekama, Jiregna, Mengistu, Mulat (2016) Gwama – English Dictionary‎, SIL International

Romanization

shi (shi⁵／shi⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄕ)

Hanyu Pinyin reading of 匙
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 殖
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 𥫽

shi

Nonstandard spelling of shī.
Nonstandard spelling of shí.
Nonstandard spelling of shǐ.
Nonstandard spelling of shì.

Usage notes

Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃɪ/

Pronoun

shi

(Southern Scots, personal) she

Usage notes

Used alongside the English she (/ʃiː/).

Noun

shi (plural shi pë)

feces, castings, poop

References

Lizot, Jacques (2004) Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmɨ‎ (in Spanish), Vicariato apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho, →ISBN

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Variant orthographies
ALIV	shi
Brazilian standard	shi
New Tribes	shi

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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ʃi]

Verb

shi

(transitive) to tear, to slash, to scratch

Derived terms

eshi

References

Hall, Katherine (2007) “-iši-”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021

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Stefan Schumacher & Joachim Matzinger, Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2013), 226.

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English

Albanian

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