# siu
## Middle High German
### Alternative forms

* sī, si

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old High German siu, si, from Proto-West Germanic *si(j)u, *sī, from Proto-Germanic *sī.

#### Pronoun

siu f
* she (feminine singular nominative)

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Old High German siu.

#### Pronoun

siu n pl
* nominative/accusative neuter plural of ëȥ: they

### Inflection

Middle High German personal pronouns :
| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Genitive | Dative | Accusative |
| Singular | First | | ich | mīn | mir | mich |
| Singular | Second | | du, dū | dīn | dir | dich |
| Singular | Third | Masculine | ër CG hë(r) | sīn | im(e) | in |
| Singular | Third | Feminine | siu | ir(e) | ir(e) | sie |
| Singular | Third | Neuter | ëȥ CG iȥ, it | es | im(e) | ëȥ CG iȥ, it |
| Plural | First | | wir | unser | uns | uns, unsich |
| Plural | Second | | ir | iuwer | iu, iuch | iuch |
| Plural | Third | Masculine | sie | ir(e) | in | sie |
| Plural | Third | Feminine | sie | ir(e) | in | sie |
| Plural | Third | Neuter | siu | ir(e) | in | siu |
| The distinction of the forms siu and sie as shown above is typical of earlier Upper German texts, but was never general. The forms sī and si existed additionally and all four were increasingly used without differentiation. |||||||

### Descendants

* Alemannic German: si
* Bavarian:
    Cimbrian: zi, si (Luserna), ze
    Mòcheno: si
* German: sie
* Hunsrik: sie
* Luxembourgish: si
* Yiddish: זי (zi)

## Old Danish
### Alternative forms

* siv, siw, syu

### Etymology

From Old Norse sjau.

### Numeral

siu
* seven

#### Descendants

* Danish: syv

## Old Dutch
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *iz and *hiz. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

### Pronoun

siu
* she

#### Alternative forms

* sia

#### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: si, sie, soe, so
** Dutch: zij
*** Afrikaans: sy
** Limburgish: zie

#### Further reading

* “siu”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

### References

* van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “zij”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

## Old Irish
### Etymology

Originally the dative of so (“this”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sʲiu̯/

### Adverb

siu
* here
    Synonym: sund
** c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 111$^c$13
    Is hé ru·fiastar cumachtae inna díglae do·mbi{u}r-siu húa londas, intí du·écigi{gi} is ar trócairi ⁊ censi du·bir-siu forunni siu innahí fo·daimem ré techt innúnn.He who will know the power of the punishment which you sg inflict by means of wrath, it is he who will see that it is for the sake of mercy and gentleness that you inflict on us here the things that we suffer before going there.

### Determiner

siu
* Alternative form of so used after the deictic particle í and its derivatives

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 siu, síu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 480, page 303

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *iz and *hiz.

### Pronoun

siu f
* she

#### Descendants

* Low German: se

### Pronoun

siu n pl
* they

#### Descendants

* Low German: se

## Old Swedish
### Alternative forms

* syū

### Etymology

From Old Norse sjau, from Proto-Germanic *sebun, from earlier *sebunt, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.

### Numeral

siū
* seven

#### Descendants

* Swedish: sju

## Sicilian
### Alternative forms

* sivu

### Etymology

From Latin sēbum (“sebum”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsiu/
* Hyphenation: si‧u

### Noun

siu m (plural sii)
* fat, sebum

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsi.u]

### Verb

siu
* (transitive) to slice

#### Conjugation
### References

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