сия

See also: сія

Bulgarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [siˈja̟]

Verb

сия́ • (sijá)

1. second/third-person singular aorist indicative of сия́я (sijája)

Erzya

Сия. (1.1)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʲija/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Mordvinic *śəjä~*śijä, possibly inherited from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ćejŋi (“jewellery, ornament”), whence Northern Sami čikŋa, Eastern Mari ший (šij). Compare also Finnish sievä (“cute, pretty”).

Noun

сия • (sija)

1. silver
   • 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 31:

     Iľado sait tynk martonk ni syŕne ni sija ni piže kaŕkssonk tynk.

     “Do not get any gold or silver or copper to take with you in your belts.”

Declension

Indefinite declension of сия (back-vowel stem (ума) type)

	singular	plural
nominative	сия (sija)	сият (sijat)
genitive	сиянь (sijań)	—
dative	сиянень (sijaneń)	—
ablative	сиядо (sijado)	—
inessive	сиясо (sijaso)	—
elative	сиясто (sijasto)	—
illative	сияс (sijas)	—
prolative	сиява (sijava)	—
translative	сиякс (sijaks)	—
comparative	сияшка (sijaška)	—
abessive	сиявтомо (sijavtomo)	—

Etymology 2

From Proto-Mordvinic *śijə, derived from *śe +‎ *-kä ~ *-gä (“that”). Compare Finnish siellä, Veps sigä (“there”).

Adverb

сия • (sija)

1. there

   Synonyms: тосо (toso), (rare) сесэ (sesë)

   Сия чуди лейне.

   Sija čudi lejne.

   There is a river flowing there.

Related terms

• се (se)

See also

• тия (tija, “here”)

References

• B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “сия”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
• Keresztes, László (1986) Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial‎^[1], Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26.

Kazakh

Alternative scripts

Arabic	سيا
Cyrillic	сия
Latin	sia

Etymology

From Persian سیاه.

Noun

сия • (siä)

1. ink

Russian

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

сия́ • (sijá)

1. nominative feminine singular of сей (sej)