sich
English
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Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Ukrainian Січ (Sič), from Ukrainian сікти (sikty, “to chop”), alluding to the clearing of a forest for an encampment, or the building of a fort with trees that have been cut down.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /siːt͡ʃ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -iːtʃ
Noun
[edit]- (historical) An administrative and military centre for the Zaporozhian and Danube Cossacks.
Translations
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Dmytro Yavornytsky, Ivan Svarnyk, transl. (1892) L. L. Kiriyenko, editor, Історія Запорізьких Козаків, у трьох томах [Istorija Zaporizʹkyx Kozakiv, u trʹox tomax, History of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, in Three Volumes] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, Lviv: Видавництво "Світ" ["Svit" Publishing House], →ISBN.
Further reading
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]sich (not comparable)
- (Mid-Ulster, pronunciation) Alternative form of such
- 1895, Rudyard Kipling, The Young British Soldier:
- She's human as you are—you treat her as sich,
- 1892, William Carleton, Amusing Irish Tales:
- But I'm all in tremor after sich accident,
Pronoun
[edit]sich
- Alternative form of such
Anagrams
[edit]German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German sich, from Old High German sih, from Proto-Germanic *sek. Compare Yiddish זיך (zikh), Dutch zich.
This pronoun was originally restricted to the accusative case, while simple personal pronouns were used in the dative. Dative use of sich in Middle High German was restricted to northern dialects of Central German. In Early Modern German, a rare dative sir also occurred, formed by analogy with mir, dir. An obstacle to the generalisation of this form was the use of sich in the plural, where there operated the conflicting analogy with the merged accusative/dative forms uns, euch.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]sich (both accusative and dative)
- (reflexive) Reflexive pronoun of the third person singular: herself, himself, itself, oneself (direct or indirect object)
- (reflexive) Reflexive pronoun of the third person plural: themselves (direct or indirect object)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Scots
[edit]Adjective
[edit]sich (comparative mair sich, superlative maist sich)
- Alternative form of sic
Pronoun
[edit]sich
- Alternative form of sic
- English terms borrowed from Ukrainian
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- Rhymes:English/iːtʃ
- Rhymes:English/iːtʃ/1 syllable
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- Mid-Ulster English
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- en:Ukraine
- German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- German terms inherited from Middle High German
- German terms derived from Middle High German
- German terms inherited from Old High German
- German terms derived from Old High German
- German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
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- Rhymes:German/ɪç
- Rhymes:German/ɪç/1 syllable
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