tsi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tsi"

Translingual

Symbol

tsi

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Tsimshian.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tsimshian terms

Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin quid. Compare Romanian ce.

Pronoun

tsi (interrogative)

1. what

Bura

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡sí]

Noun

tsi

1. arm

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Ewe

Noun

tsi

1. water (including in the form of a river or rain)

   dé asi tsi me — put one's hand in the water

   • 2006, Aspect and Modality in Kwa Languages, →ISBN, page 158:

     mia-nyrɔ-e ɖé tɔ-a me né wò-a-no tsi kú

     1PL:1RR-immerse-3SG ALL river-DEF containing.region LINK 3SG-1RR-drink water die

     We should immerse him in the river so that he would drown. (literally "die by water")

   • 2006, Aspect and Modality in Kwa Languages, →ISBN, page 187:

     tsi dî bé ye-a-dza

     water want COMP LOG-SUBJV-ooze

     'Rain wants to fall' i.e. 'it is about to rain'.

Verb

tsi

1. extinguish
2. hang
3. suspend

Ibaloi

Article

tsi

1. standard spelling of chi

Usage notes

• This is considered the standard spelling as per Ortograpiya ni Ibalóy (2016)

Japanese

Romanization

tsi

1. The katakana syllable ツィ (tsi) in Hepburn romanization.

Kusunda

Pronoun

tsi

1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

References

David E. Watters (2006), “Notes on Kusunda Grammar: A Language Isolate of Nepal”, in Himalayan Linguistics‎^[1], page 44

Lala (South Africa)

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-tɪ̀ (“say, quote”).

Verb

-tsi

1. to say

Lower Tanana

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *tsiˑ.

Root

tsi

1. to make a singular object

Stem set

Aspect	Imperfective	Perfective	Future	Optative
Conclusive	tsi	tsinh	tsiɬ	tsi, tsiɬ
Momentaneous	tsiyh	tsinh	tsiɬ	tsiɬ
Neuter	tsinh	tsi'	tsiɬ	tsi'
Customary	tsiyh	tsiyh	tsiyh	tsiyh
Distributive	tsi'	tsinh	tsi'	tsi'

Derived terms

• -'oɬtsin t'anenh (“brother-in-law”)
• eɬtsi, yeɬtsi (“he/she makes it”)
• letsiyh (“it is customarily made”)
• xwngheltsi (“he/she is acting mischevious”)
• xwtsiɬ (“fishweir”)

References

• Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, pages 418-421

Mohawk

Preposition

tsi

1. to (with translocative t-)

Swazi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-tɪ̀ (“say, quote”).

Verb

-tsi

1. to say

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmongic *tsjɨᴮ (“what”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʂi˧/

Pronoun

tsi

1. used in dab tsi (“what”)

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979), White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[2], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 29.