different between sies vs siens

English

Etymology 1

From Afrikaans

Interjection

sies

1. (South Africa) Expressing disgust, disappointment, or annoyance.
   • 2008, William Higham, Nakada's Touch (page 316)

     'Sies, man,' a voice said. 'You're a domkop. How you gonna see 'em?'

   • 2011, Niq Mhlongo, After Tears (page 13)

     “Sies, man!” she said to herself. “Where are the men of this house? Is anybody home?”

Etymology 2

Verb

sies

1. simple past tense and past participle of sie

Noun

sies

1. plural of sie

Anagrams

• -esis, seis, sise

German

Alternative forms

• sie's

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zi?s/
• Hyphenation: sies

Contraction

sies

1. Contraction of sie es.

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si?s/

Adjective

sies

1. sweet

Derived terms

• Siesichkeet
• Sieskartoffel
• Siesransch

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin sex.

Adjective

sies

1. six

Noun

sies m (uncountable)

1. six

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??s/

Etymology 1

From Arabic ?????? (?as?s). The plural form by analogy with certain other monosyllabic nouns with the vowel -ie-, such as bieb or wied. Compare Moroccan Arabic ???? (s?s).

Noun

sies m (plural sisien)

1. foundation, basis

Etymology 2

From Arabic ????? (s?sa, “to lead, direct”) with semantic shift from leading to being led.

Verb

sies (imperfect jsus)

1. (with wara) to follow persistently, to tail after

Conjugation

• The perfect tense is highly archaic and not part of contemporary standard Maltese. It is replaced with kien + imperfect.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

sies

1. passive form of si

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English chess.

Noun

sies m (uncountable, not mutable)

1. chess

Synonyms

• gwyddbwyll

English

Noun

siens

1. Obsolete spelling of scion

Anagrams

• I-ness, Nisse, SINEs, Sensi, seins, sines, snies

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sj??/

Adjective

siens

1. (archaic) masculine plural of sien

Derived terms

• les siens (“his, hers”)

Anagrams

• seins

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *šainan, *šeinan, from Proto-Indo-European *?oynom (from Proto-Indo-European *?oy-no- (“hay”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ey- (“color, usually gray”)). Cognates include Lithuanian ši?nas (“hay”) (regionally si?nas), Old Church Slavonic ???? (s?no, “hay”) (Russian ????? (séno), Ukrainian ????? (síno), Bulgarian ????? (senó), Czech seno, Polish siano), and possibly Ancient Greek ????? (koiná, “cattle food”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sìens]

Noun

siens m (1st declension)

1. hay (dried grass used as animal fodder)

Declension

Derived terms

• siena drudzis
• siena m?nesis

See also

• gulta

References