different between sipe vs sips

English

Etymology

From Old English sipian, related to seep.

• around 888 AD, K Aelfred, translation of Boethius, Chapter 33, para.5 ,

"Seo eore hit helt & be sumum dæle swil, & for am sype heo bi eleht."

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?p/

Noun

sipe (plural sipes)

1. (US) Slit in a tire to drain away surface water and improve traction.
2. (Britain, dialect) A drain.

Verb

sipe (third-person singular simple present sipes, present participle siping, simple past and past participle siped)

1. (US) To cut grooves in tires.
2. (intransitive, Britain) To drain, to filter through peat or reeds; to seep.

Anagrams

• EPIs, Epis, Peis, Seip, epis, ipes, pies, pisé, spie

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sipe (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. inflection of sipa:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

English

Noun

sips

1. plural of sip

Anagrams

• ISPs, PSIS, SSPI, piss, psis

Abenaki

Noun

sips (animate, plural sipsak)

1. bird

Inflection

• sipsak (plural)
• Sipsek (locative)

Penobscot

Etymology

Cognate with Malecite-Passamaquoddy sips (“a bird, especially a duck”), Abenaki sips (“bird”). Possibly cognate with Massachusett s?s?p (“duck”), Menominee s?qsep (“duck”), Ojibwe zhiishiib (“duck”), Miami šiihšiipa (“duck”), Cree sîsîp/sisip (“duck”).

Noun

sips anim (diminutive sipsis)

1. bird

Derived terms

• sipsis - little, small bird