siu

See also: Siu, SIU, siû, siú, siū, and -siu

Middle High German

Alternative forms

• sī, si

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old High German siu, si, from Proto-West Germanic *si(j)u, *sī, from Proto-Germanic *sī.

Pronoun

siu f

1. she (feminine singular nominative)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old High German siu.

Pronoun

siu n pl

1. nominative/accusative neuter plural of ëȥ: they

Inflection

Middle High German personal pronouns

Number	Person	Gender	Nominative	Genitive	Dative	Accusative
Singular	First		ich	mīn	mir	mich
	Second		du, dū	dīn	dir	dich
	Third	Masculine	ër CG hë(r)	sīn	im(e)	in
		Feminine	siu	ir(e)	ir(e)	sie
		Neuter	ëȥ CG iȥ, it	es	im(e)	ëȥ CG iȥ, it
Plural	First		wir	unser	uns	uns, unsich
	Second		ir	iuwer	iu, iuch	iuch
	Third	Masculine	sie	ir(e)	in	sie
		Feminine
		Neuter	siu			siu
The distinction of the forms siu and sie as shown above is typical of earlier Upper German texts, but was never general. The forms sī and si existed additionally and all four were increasingly used without differentiation.

Descendants

• Alemannic German: si
• Bavarian:

  Cimbrian: zi, si (Luserna), ze

  Mòcheno: si

• German: sie
• Hunsrik: sie
• Luxembourgish: si
• Yiddish: זי (zi)

Old Danish

Alternative forms

• siv, siw, syu

Etymology

From Old Norse sjau.

Numeral

siu

1. seven

Descendants

• Danish: syv

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *iz and *hiz. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronoun

siu

1. she

Declension

Old Dutch personal pronouns

1st person	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ik, ic, ih	wī, wīr
Accusative	mī, mik, *mic	uns, unsig
Genitive	mīn	unsa, *unser
Dative	mī	uns, unsig
2nd person	Singular	Plural
Nominative	thu, tu	gī, ir
Accusative	thī, thik, *thic	iu,
Genitive	thīn	iuwa, *iuwer
Dative	thī	iu

3rd person	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	hē, hie	sia	it
Accusative	imo	sia	it
Genitive	sīn, is	iro	is
Dative	imo	iro	imo
		Plural
Nominative		sia, sie (masc. plur.)
Accusative		sia, sie (masc. plur.)
Genitive		iro
Dative		im

Alternative forms

• sia

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: si, sie, soe, so
  • Dutch: zij
    • Afrikaans: sy
  • Limburgish: zie

Further reading

• “siu”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

References

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “zij”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Old Irish

Etymology

Originally the dative of so (“this”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʲiu̯/

Adverb

siu

1. here

   Synonym: sund

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 111^c13

     Is hé ru·fiastar cumachtae inna díglae do·mbi{u}r-siu húa londas, intí du·écigi{gi} is ar trócairi ⁊ censi du·bir-siu forunni siu innahí fo·daimem ré techt innúnn.

     He who will know the power of the punishment which you sg inflict by means of wrath, it is he who will see that it is for the sake of mercy and gentleness that you inflict on us here the things that we suffer before going there.

Determiner

siu

1. Alternative form of so used after the deictic particle í and its derivatives

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 siu, síu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 480, page 303; reprinted 2017

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *iz and *hiz.

Pronoun

siu f

1. she

Descendants

• Low German: se

Pronoun

siu n pl

1. they

Declension

Old Saxon personal pronouns

Personal pronouns
Singular	1.	2.	3. m	3. f	3. n
Nominative	ik	thū	hē	siu	it
Accusative	mī, me, mik	thī, thik	ina	sia
Dative	mī	thī	imu	iru	it
Genitive	mīn	thīn	is	ira	is
Dual	1.	2.	-	-	-
Nominative	wit	git	-	-	-
Accusative	unk	ink	-	-	-
Dative
Genitive	unkero, unka	inker, inka	-	-	-
Plural	1.	2.	3. m	3. f	3. n
Nominative	wī, we	gī, ge	sia	sia	siu
Accusative	ūs, unsik	eu, iu, iuu
Dative	ūs		im
Genitive	ūser	euwar, iuwer, iuwar, iuwero, iuwera	iro

Descendants

• Low German: se

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• syū

Etymology

From Old Norse sjau, from Proto-Germanic *sebun, from earlier *sebunt, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.

Numeral

siū

1. seven

Descendants

• Swedish: sju

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• sivu

Etymology

From Latin sēbum (“sebum”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiu/
• Hyphenation: si‧u

Noun

siu m (plural sii)

1. fat, sebum

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsi.u]

Verb

siu

1. (transitive) to slice

Conjugation

Conjugation of siu
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	tosiu	fosiu	misiu
2nd	nosiu	nisiu
3rd	Masculine	osiu	isiu, yosiu†
Feminine	mosiu
Neuter	isiu
† - archaic

References

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