ꩬီ

Aiton

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *siːᴮ (“four”), from Middle Chinese 四 (MC sijH, “four”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ləj (“four”). Cognate with Ahom 𑜏𑜣 (sī), Bouyei sis, Khamti ꩬီ, Lü ᦉᦲᧈ (ṡii¹), Lao ສີ່ (sī), Northern Thai ᩈᩦ᩵, Nùng slỉ, Phake ꩬီ (sī), Shan သီႇ (sìi), Tày slí, Tai Dam ꪎꪲ꪿, Tai Laing ꩬီ, Tai Nüa ᥔᥤᥱ (sǐ), Thai สี่ (sìi), Zhuang seiq.

Numeral

ꩬီ (sī)

1. four.

Khamti

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *siːᴮ (“four”), from Middle Chinese 四 (MC sijH, “four”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ləj (“four”). Cognate with Ahom 𑜏𑜣 (sī), Aiton ꩬီ (sī), Bouyei sis, Lü ᦉᦲᧈ (ṡii¹), Lao ສີ່ (sī), Northern Thai ᩈᩦ᩵, Nùng slỉ, Phake ꩬီ (sī), Shan သီႇ (sìi), Tày slí, Tai Dam ꪎꪲ꪿, Tai Laing ꩬီ, Tai Nüa ᥔᥤᥱ (sǐ), Thai สี่ (sìi), Zhuang seiq.

Numeral

ꩬီ (transliteration needed)

1. four.

Etymology 2

Conjunction

ꩬီ (transliteration needed)

1. but.

Phake

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *siːᴮ (“four”), from Middle Chinese 四 (MC sijH, “four”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ləj (“four”). Cognate with Ahom 𑜏𑜣 (sī), Aiton ꩬီ (sī), Bouyei sis, Khamti ꩬီ, Lü ᦉᦲᧈ (ṡii¹), Lao ສີ່ (sī), Northern Thai ᩈᩦ᩵, Nùng slỉ, Phake ꩬီ (sī), Shan သီႇ (sìi), Tày slí, Tai Dam ꪎꪲ꪿, Tai Laing ꩬီ, Tai Nüa ᥔᥤᥱ (sǐ), Thai สี่ (sìi), Zhuang seiq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siː¹/

Numeral

ꩬ︀ီ (sī)

1. four.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Southwestern Tai *siːꟲ¹ (“rib; tooth (of a comb, rake, etc)”). Cognate with Thai ซี่ (sîi), Khün ᩈᩦ᩶, Tai Dam ꪏꪲ꪿, Lü ᦉᦲᧉ (ṡii²), Shan သီႈ (sīi), Tai Nüa ᥔᥤᥲ (sì), Ahom 𑜏𑜣 (sī).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siː³/

Noun

ꩬ︀ီ (sī)

1. tooth (of a comb, etc).

Classifier

ꩬ︀ီ (sī)

1. used for teeth or similar things.

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siː⁶/

Verb

ꩬ︀ီ (sī)

1. to rub; to scrape; to graze.

Tai Laing

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *siːᴮ (“four”), from Middle Chinese 四 (MC sijH, “four”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ləj (“four”). Cognate with Ahom 𑜏𑜣 (sī), Aiton ꩬီ (sī), Bouyei sis, Khamti ꩬီ, Lü ᦉᦲᧈ (ṡii¹), Lao ສີ່ (sī), Northern Thai ᩈᩦ᩵, Nùng slỉ, Phake ꩬီ (sī), Shan သီႇ (sìi), Tày slí, Tai Dam ꪎꪲ꪿, Tai Nüa ᥔᥤᥱ (sǐ), Thai สี่ (sìi), Zhuang seiq.

Numeral

ꩬီ (sī)

1. four.