sia

• siah, sial, siol

From Malay sial.

• (Singapore) IPA^(key): /sjɑː˧/, /-˨˧/, /sjɐ/, /sjə/

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!

• (Singlish particles): ah, hor, know, lah, leh, liao, lor, mah, meh, one, what

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

• ais, A.S.I., Asi, AIS, a-Si, is-a, Ais, sai, Isa, A.I.s, Isa., IAS, ISA, ASI, IAs, AIs, A. S. I.

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

sia

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

   Synonyms: sigui, siga

• o sia

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 […]

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

sia

1. we (inclusive)

sia

1. we are (inclusive)

sia

1. water
2. river

• Duane A. Clouse, 1997, Toward a reconstruction and reclassification of the Lakes Plain languages of Irian Jaya, In Karl J. Franklin (ed.), Papers in Papuan linguistics No. 2, 133-236. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, page 172
• C. L. Voorhoeve, 1975. Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, p.108

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

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

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.

sia

1. to die

sia

1. imperative of esser

sia

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

From Old Irish sír.

• IPA^(key): [ʃiə]

sia

1. longer
2. further

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sia”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 sía”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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

sia

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

sia ... sia ...

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

• sia ... che ...

• -asi, sai

From Proto-Austronesian *Siwa.

sia

1. nine

sia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sion

• 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

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *siwa.

sia

1. nine

• siie (Mooring)
• See (Sylt)

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.

sia m (plural sian)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) lake

sia f (plural sian)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) sea

• 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.

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

sia

1. Alternative form of siden

• IPA^(key): /²siːɑ/

sia

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of sidan

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

sia

1. they

• Middle Dutch: si, sie
  • Dutch: zij
  • Limburgish: zie

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

• sie

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

sia m or f

1. she (accusative)
2. they

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

• (Islay, South Argyll) sè

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

IPA^(key): /ʃia/

sia

1. six

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “sia”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan‎^[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

From Proto-Bantu *-tíga.

sia

1. to leave

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

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

1. to foretell; to tell the future

• spå

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

• Isa

• IPA^(key): [ˈsi.a]

sia

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

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

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

sia

1. nine

From English chair.

sia

1. chair

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

• IPA^(key): /ʂiə̯˧/

sia

1. to wrap around the waist

   sia siv ― to put on a sash

sia (classifier: txoj)

1. life
2. breath
3. living being

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[2], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 295.

sia

1. foam

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

sia

1. they
2. he, she, it