isi

isi

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Nkem-Nkum.

• Wiktionary's coverage of Nkem-Nkum terms

• IPA^(key): /iˈsi/ [ʔɪˈsɪ]
• Hyphenation: i‧si

isí

1. thy own, your own
2. his own, her own
3. (Awash) my own

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “isi”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

• ishi, nishi, n'shi, n'ʃi

isi

1. water

• Maurice Delafosse, Vocabulaires comparatifs de plus de 60 langues ou dialectes parlés à la Côte d’Ivoire et dans les régions limitrophes : avec des notes linguistiques et ethnologiques, une bibliographie et une carte (Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1904), page 43 (as Alaguian isi, ishi)
• Die Sudansprachen. Eine sprachvergleichende Studie von Diedrich Westermann (Abhandlungen des Hamburgischen Kolonialinstituts Bd. 3; Hamburg, 1911), p. 149:

  Nu. esi Wasser
     Alaguian isi Wasser (D.).

  Abbreviations: Nu. = Nuba, (D.) = aus Delafosse. Explanation: German Wasser (“water”)

• Marc Augé, Le rivage alladian: organisation et évolution des villages alladian (as n'ʃi)

isi

1. search

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔisi/ [ˈʔi.si]
• Hyphenation: i‧si

ísi (Basahan spelling ᜁᜐᜒ)

1. to search

   Synonym: hanap

2. to remind; to prompt

   Synonym: girumdom

3. to discover something, to find out about something

   Synonyms: rurop, talastas

• Hyphenation: i‧si
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔisi/ [ˈʔi.s̪ɪ]

isi (Badlit spelling ᜁᜐᜒ)

1. (chiefly Camiguin) toggle iron

From English easy.

isi (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) easy; composed, calm

isi (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) quietly, gently

Hypocoristic form of isä (“father”), possibly equivalent to isä +‎ -i.

• IPA^(key): /ˈisi/, [ˈis̠i]

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• Rhymes: -isi
• Hyphenation^(key): isi

isi (familiar)

1. dad, father, daddy

   Synonyms: iskä, isukki, isä

• “isi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• sii

Form Proto-Eskimo *irǝ. Cognate of Inupiaq iri and Inuktitut ᐃᔨ (iyi), iji.

• IPA^(key): /isi/

isi (plural isit)

1. (anatomy) eye

From Proto-Inuit *ici (“drum skin”), from Proto-Eskimo *ǝci (“drum skin, cover”).

isi (plural isit)

1. drum head, drum-skin
2. (music) string

Clipping and -i diminutive of iskola (“school”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈiʃi]
• Hyphenation: isi
• Rhymes: -ʃi

isi (plural isik)

1. (colloquial) school

   Synonyms: iskola, suli

isi

1. dregs (from winemaking)

isi

1. content
2. meat; flesh

isi

1. seed

• de Goeje, C. H. (1928) The Arawak Language of Guiana‎^[3], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 39

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *isi, from Proto-Austronesian *isi.

• IPA^(key): /isi/
• Rhymes: -si, -i

isi (Jawi spelling ايسي, plural isi-isi, informal 1st possessive isiku, 2nd possessive isimu, 3rd possessive isinya)

1. flesh
2. content

• Indonesian: isi

• “isi” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Inherited from Sanskrit ऋषि (ṛṣi), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *r̥šíš.

isi m

1. sage, seer

• → Burmese: ဣသိ (i.si.)
• → Mon: ဣသိ
• → Khmer: ឥសី (ʼisəy)
• → Sinhalese: ඉසි (isi)
• → Thai: อิสิ (isi)

From Proto-Bantu *ncɪ́.

isí class 9 (plural amasí class 6)

1. earth, the world

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Afar úsuk and Hadiyya iso.

• IPA^(key): /ˈisi/
• Hyphenation: i‧si

isi

1. he

• Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 70

Cognate with Tidore isi (“urine”), Tabaru osisi (“to urinate”). Further afield, compare Proto-Trans-New Guinea *(si)si, *siti, *pisi (“urine”) and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ihiq (“urine”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.si/

isi

1. urine

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

Cognate with Ternate isi (“urine”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.si/

isi

1. urine

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill, page 75
• Joost Pikkert, Cheryl Pikkert, Husain Mahifa (1994) Kamus Bahasa Tidore, Indonesia, Inggris

isi

1. inflection of is:
   1. accusative singular
   2. third-person singular possessive

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.s̪i/

isi

1. (transitive) to kiss

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[4], Pacific linguistics

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /íːsi/

ī́si class 5 (plural amási class 6)

1. A lump of hard, curdled milk.
2. (in the plural) curdled or sour milk

• C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “-si”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “-si (3.2.9)”