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sih

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See also: SIH, SiH, Sih, sìh, sĭh, sîh, sįh, and -sĭh

Cayuga

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Adverb

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sih

  1. over there

References

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  • Marianne Mithun, Reginald Henry (1982) Wadęwayę́stanih - A Cayuga Teaching Grammar, 3rd edition, Woodland Cultural Centre, published 2015, page 97
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Etymology

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∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -sih (hope, noun stem used as a verb stem)

Noun

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sih

  1. hope, mercy
  2. a chance
  3. life

Verb

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sih

  1. (with bił) to be satisfied with it

Conjugation

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Paradigm: Momentaneous (∅/yi), third person only.

3rd person singular
IMPERFECTIVE sih
PERFECTIVE yísih
FUTURE doosih
ITERATIVE násih
OPTATIVE wósih
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Old High German

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *sik, from Proto-Germanic *sek, whence also Old Saxon sik, Old Norse sik.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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sih

  1. self

Inflection

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This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

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  • Middle High German: sich

Slovak

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Etymology

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Probably from Russian сиг (sig).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sih m animal

  1. whitefish (fish of the genus Coregonus)

Declension

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Further reading

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  • sih”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024