sí

From Latin sīc.

sí

1. yes (word used to indicate agreement or acceptance)

Inherited from Latin sīc.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsi]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -i
• Homophone: si

sí

1. yes (affirmation; commonly used to respond affirmatively to a question)

   Synonym: hoc

sí

1. the opposite of 'not'

   Synonym: hoc

   No parles català? – Sí que el parlo!

   Do you not speak Catalan? – I do speak it [Catalan]!

• Sí is used to add positive emphasis to the verb, much like the auxiliary do in affirmative sentences in English. It generally contrasts with a previous no, and is placed in the same location within the sentence. This is a usage the word shares with Spanish.

• no

• si

• “sí” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “sí”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “sí” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi/
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: sí

From Old Galician-Portuguese si (“yes”), from Latin sīc (“thus, so”), from Proto-Indo-European *so (“this, that”).

sí

1. yes

From Old Galician-Portuguese si, from Latin sibi, from Proto-Indo-European *sébʰye.

sí

1. Reflexive prepositional pronoun; oneself, himself, herself, itself, themselves, yourself; each other, one another

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

sí

1. imperative of síggja: behold

sí

1. on the ground

For pronunciation and definitions of sí – see 死 (“Die; death; Used as intensifier; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 死).

For pronunciation and definitions of sí – see 始 (“beginning; start; to begin; to start; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 始).

For pronunciation and definitions of sí – see 豕 (“pig; boar”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 豕).

For pronunciation and definitions of sí – see 矢 (“arrow; to vow; to swear; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 矢).

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃiː]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ʃiː

Borrowed from German Schi (“ski”), originally from Norwegian ski (“ski”).

sí (plural sík)

1. ski

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	sí	sík
accusative	sít	síket
dative	sínek	síknek
instrumental	sível	síkkel
causal-final	síért	síkért
translative	sívé	síkké
terminative	síig	síkig
essive-formal	síként	síkként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	síben	síkben
superessive	sín	síken
adessive	sínél	síknél
illative	síbe	síkbe
sublative	síre	síkre
allative	síhez	síkhez
elative	síből	síkből
delative	síről	síkről
ablative	sítől	síktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	síé	síké
non-attributive possessive - plural	síéi	síkéi

Possessive forms of sí
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	sím	síjeim (or síim)
2nd person sing.	síd	síjeid (or síid)
3rd person sing.	síje	síjei (or síi)
1st person plural	sínk	síjeink (or síink)
2nd person plural	sítek	síjeitek (or síitek)
3rd person plural	síjük	síjeik (or síik)

• síel

An onomatopoeia (sound imitation).

sí

2. (archaic) to howl, cry, whiz, shriek, screech, shrill^[1]

   Synonyms: sivít, visít, sikít, vijjog, rikolt, sikolt, süvít

• sír

• (ski): sí in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (to howl, cry): sí in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Old Norse sí-, from Proto-Germanic *sin-.

• IPA^(key): /siː/
• Rhymes: -iː

sí

1. always

• alltaf, ávallt, sífelllt, æ, ætíð

• sí og æ (“always, permanently, continually”)

• IPA^(key): /ʃiː/

From Middle Irish side, from Old Irish síd, from Proto-Celtic *sīdos (“mound (inhabited by fairies); peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *sēds, from *sed- (“to sit”). Doublet of síth.

• sidhe, síodh (superseded)

sí m (genitive singular sí, nominative plural síthe)

1. fairy mound, tumulus

From Old Irish sí, from Proto-Celtic *sī, from Proto-Indo-European *sih₂.

sí (emphatic form sise, conjunctive)

1. she
2. it (referring to a feminine noun)

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
sí	shí after an, tsí	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 65
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 síd, síth (‘fairy mound’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

sí

1. foot, paw

• IPA^(key): /sʲiː/

From Proto-Celtic *sī (compare Welsh hi), from a blend of Proto-Indo-European *só (“this”) + *íh₂.

sí

1. she

   Sí fri gábud condon·fóir.

   May she protect us against danger.

2. it (referring to a feminine noun)

   Is sí thol Dée.

   It is God's will.

• sissi (emphatic)

• Irish: sí
• Manx: ee
• Scottish Gaelic: i

See síi.

sí

1. Alternative spelling of síi

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi/ [ˈsi]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: sí
• Homophone: si

Inherited from Latin sīc (est).

sí

1. yes (commonly used to respond affirmatively to a question)

   Synonyms: claro, por supuesto, (colloquial, Mexico, Guatemala) simón, (colloquial) sip

   Antonyms: no, (colloquial, Mexico) nel

2. A syntactic marker for emphasis or to replace an earlier verb, allowing the speaker to avoid repeating the verb, both similar to English do

   Antonym: no

   "Les gusta el chocolate, ¿verdad?" "A mí sí, pero a él no."

   "You both like chocolate, right?" "I do, but he doesn't."

3. (Spain) hello (used to answer the telephone)

• As an emphasis or pro-verb, this term has in Spanish a usage that is not usually explicitly translated into English, since it could sound like a pleonasm, being that "positively", "affirmatively", and always related to a negation (explicit or not):
  • Él sí puede, yo no

    He (positively) can, I cannot.

  • Esto sí es una fiesta.

    This sure is a party. / This is what I call a party.

  • No sabemos si es sostenible, pero lo que sí sabemos es que funciona muy bien.

    We don't know if it's sustainable, but what we do know is that it works very well.

sí m (plural sís or síes)

1. yes; aye, ay; approbation, acceptance

   Ganaron los síes.

   The ayes have it.

Inherited from Latin sibi, from Proto-Indo-European *sébʰye, dative of *swé (“self”). Cognate with French soi, Italian sé, and Portuguese si.

sí

1. himself, herself, itself, themselves, yourself, yourselves (form of se used after prepositions)

   para sí ― for himself/herself/itself/themselves/yourself/yourselves

• si

• “sí”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014