different between sis vs sim

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?s/
• Rhymes: -?s
• Homophone: cis

Noun

sis (plural sises or sisses)

1. (informal) Clipping of sister.
   • 1980, Stephen King, The Wedding Gig

     My sis is tying the knot. I want you to play for the reception.

Synonyms

• (sister): sissy

Translations

Anagrams

• ISS, SSI

Bouyei

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *si?? (“four”), from Middle Chinese ? (MC si?^H, “four”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-l?j (“four”). Cognate with Thai ??? (sìi), Northern Thai ???, Lao ??? (s?), Lü ??? (?ii¹), Tai Dam ???, Shan ??? (sìi), Tai Nüa ??? (s?), Ahom ???????? (sii), Zhuang seiq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si??/

Numeral

sis

1. four

Synonyms

• siq (in loanwords from Chinese)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?sis/
• Rhymes: -is

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan seis, from Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swé?s.

Numeral

sis m or f

1. six

Noun

sis m (plural sisos)

1. six

Etymology 2

Noun

sis

1. plural of si

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Contraction

sis

1. Contraction of jsi + si.

Usage notes

When using a reflexive verb in the second-person singular past form and in conditional, the auxiliary verb být (“to be”) is replaced with just -s appended to the reflexive pronoun se, si. The full form “jsi se”, “jsi si” is proscribed as hypercorrect.

Related terms

• ses

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?s

Verb

sis

1. first-person singular present indicative of sissen
2. imperative of sissen

French

Etymology

From Latin sessus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si/

Verb

sis m (feminine singular sise, masculine plural sis, feminine plural sises)

1. past participle of seoir

Adjective

sis (feminine singular sise, masculine plural sis, feminine plural sises)

1. (law, literary) located

Further reading

• “sis” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

Noun

sis m pl

1. plural of si

Gothic

Romanization

sis

1. Romanization of ????????????

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French six.

Numeral

sis

1. six

Ido

Etymology

From English six, French six, German sechs, Spanish seis, Italian sei, Russian ????? (šest?), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé?s.

Numeral

sis

1. six (6)

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /si?s/, [s?i?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sis/, [sis]

Etymology 1

A contraction of s? v?s, from s? (“if”) + v?s (“you want”), the second person of vol? (“to want”). Literally meaning "if you want".

Adverb

s?s (not comparable)

1. if you want, if you wish, if you're willing, if you prefer

   Synonym: s?d?s

Etymology 2

Inflected form of sum (“I am”).

Verb

s?s

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of sum

References

• sis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Louisiana Creole French

Etymology

From French six (“six”).

Numeral

sis

1. six

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French six.

Numeral

sis

1. six

Navajo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??s/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Athabaskan *s?x. Cognate with Western Apache sis, Chiricahua sis, Jicarilla sis, Plains Apache sis.

Noun

sis (possessed form -ziiz)

1. belt, sash, girdle

Inflection

Etymology 2

Cognate with Sarcee sis, Beaver shís, hís, Sekani hís, Chipewyan she?, Carrier shu?.

Noun

sis

1. (obsolete) hill, mountain

Alternative forms

• tsis

Derived terms

• Sis Naateel (“Wide Belt Mesa NM, Sisnathyel Mesa”)
• Sisnaajiní (“Blanca Peak”)
• Tsisnaajiní (“Blanca Peak”)

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

Pronoun

sis

1. locative of sii

Old French

Etymology

From Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swé?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sis/

Numeral

sis

1. six

Descendants

• Middle French: six
  • French: six
    • Haitian Creole: sis
    • Louisiana Creole French: sis
    • Mauritian Creole: sis
  • Norman: six
• Walloon: shijh
• ? Middle English: sice, sis
  • English: sice, sise, size
    • ? Japanese: ??? (saisu)

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Surmiran) seis
• (Puter, Vallader) ses

Etymology

From Latin sex (compare Spanish seis), from Proto-Indo-European *swé?s.

Numeral

sis

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) six

Tok Pisin

Etymology

English cheese.

Noun

sis

1. cheese

Turkish

Etymology

Unknown.

Noun

sis (definite accusative sisi, plural sisler)

1. (meteorology) fog

Declension

Derived terms

• sisli

Western Apache

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *s?x. Cognate with Navajo sis, Chiricahua sis, Jicarilla sis, Plains Apache sis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s??s]

Noun

sis (possessed form -ziz)

1. belt

Derived terms

• shiziz = "my belt"
• biziz = "her/his/their belt"

Zazaki

Noun

sis

1. knitting needle

English

Etymology

Shortening of simulation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

sim (plural sims)

1. (informal) A simulation or simulator.

   They played a flight sim all afternoon.

Anagrams

• -ism, IMS, IMs, ISM, MIS, MIs, MSI, ism, mis-

Beja

Etymology

From Proto-Afro-Asiatic. Compare Arabic ???? (ism) and Hausa suna.

Noun

sim

1. name

References

• Bedawiyet Swadesh List. (2010, September 16). Retrieved December 06, 2020, from https://ia600500.us.archive.org/27/items/rosettaproject_bej_swadesh-1/bej.txt

Iu Mien

Etymology

From Chinese ? (MC t??i?m, t??i?m^H).

Noun

sim 

1. needle

Khasi

Etymology

From Proto-Khasian *sim, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *cim ~ *ciim ~ *ci?m ~ *caim ~ *cum (“bird”). Cognate with Pnar sim.

Noun

sim

1. bird

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sim/, [s????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sim/, [sim]

Verb

sim

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of sum

Min Nan

Mizo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sim/

Verb

sim

1. to repent

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German siben, from Old High German sebun, from Proto-Germanic *sebun. Cognate with German sieben, English seven.

Numeral

sim

1. seven

References

• “sim” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Northern Kurdish

Noun

sim m

1. hoof

Pnar

Etymology

From Proto-Khasian *sim, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *cim ~ *ciim ~ *ci?m ~ *caim ~ *cum (“bird”). Cognate with Khasi sim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sim/

Noun

sim

1. bird

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese si (“yes”) (with nasalization of the vowel under the influence of não or mim), from Latin s?c (“thus; so”), from Proto-Indo-European *so (“this, that”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /s?(j?)/
• Hyphenation: sim
• Rhymes: -?

Interjection

sim

1. yes (affirmative answer)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sim

Usage notes

Sim as an affirmative response is relatively uncommon in Portuguese. The typical affirmative response in the language consists of repeating the first verb of the question, with a change in person if necessary:

Antonyms

• não; see Thesaurus:sim#Antonyms

Adverb

sim (not comparable)

1. indeed; do (used for emphasis in affirmative expressions)

Noun

sim m (plural sins)

1. yes; yea (an affirmative answer)

Antonyms

• não

Serbo-Croatian

Adverb

sim (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. (Kajkavian) hither, this way, here

Synonyms

• ?mo, ?moder, òv?mo, s?mo

Swedish

Etymology

Back-formation from simma.

Noun

sim n

1. (almost exclusively in compounds) swimming

Declension

Derived terms

Anagrams

• -ism

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [sim??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [?im??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [?im??] ~ [sim??]

Noun

(classifier cây) sim • (?, ?, ????)

1. Rhodomyrtus tomentosa

Zhuang

Etymology

From Chinese ? (MC si?m).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /?im??/
• Tone numbers: sim¹
• Hyphenation: sim

Noun

sim (old orthography sim)

1. heart

Zou

Noun

sim

1. south

References

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf