# သီ
## Burmese
### Etymology

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Diverse array of meanings, all which are grouped together by MED. STEDT mentions the senses:
* "string as beads"
* "go by near, skim along"
* "sing, chant"
* "dim, as eyes from age"
* and gives none of them etymologies.
* Luce mentions the "sing" sense, tentatively adducing Old Chinese 伎 (OC *kjes, *ɡe, *ɡreʔ, “singing performer”), 妓 (OC *kre, *ɡreʔ, “female singing girl”); these seem outdated. He also mentioned the "thread" sense, but adduces no cognates for it.”

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /θì/
* Romanization: MLCTS: si • ALA-LC: sī • BGN/PCGN: thi • Okell: thi

### Verb

သီ • (si)
* to string, skewer
* to compose
* to sing, chant
* to tack, make a running stitch
* to weaken, dim
* to come near, approach
* to recede into the distance, be distant

#### Derived terms

* ကျေးလက်သီချင်း (kye:laksihkyang:)
* ကြိုးသီချင်း (krui:sihkyang:)
* ကုံးသီ (kum:si)
* ဇာတ်ဝင်သီချင်း (jat-wangsihkyang:)
* တစ်သီကြီး (tacsi-kri:)
* နှတ်သီတံ (hnatsitam)
* ပဒေသာသီချင်း (pa.desasihkyang:)
* ပွတ်ကာသီကာ (pwatkasika)
* ပဲသီတာ (pai:sita)
* ဖတ်သီဖတ်သီ (hpatsihpatsi)
* ဖိုသီဖတ်သီ (hpuisihpatsi)
* ဖောဖောသီသီ (hpau:hpau:sisi)
* ယဉ့်သီ (yany.si)
* ရစ်သီရစ်သီ (racsiracsi)
* ရိပ်ကာသီကာ (ripkasika)
* ရေသီကြိုး (resi-krui:)
* ရေသီနား (resina:)
* ရေသီလံ (resilam)
* သွေးသီ (swe:si)
* သီကာရီကာ (sikarika)
* သီကုံး (sikum:)
* သီချင်း (sihkyang:)
* သီချုပ် (sihkyup)
* သီတံ (sitam)
* သီရီ (siri)
* သီဝေ (siwe)
* သီသီကလေး (sisika.le:)

### References

* ↑ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-I and -E Finals (103. to Sing, Chant; Song)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 16
* ↑ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-I and -E Finals (104. to Thread, String (beads)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 16

### Further reading

* “သီ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

## Mon
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɛm/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Burmese သိမ်း (sim:).

#### Verb

သီ (sɛm)
* to collect (up), tidy away
* to bring to a conclusion

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Pali sīmā (“boundary”). Cognate with Burmese သိမ် (sim), Shan သိမ်ႇ (sìm) and Lao ສິມ (sim).

#### Noun

သီ (sɛm)
* (Buddhism) ordination hall

### References

* Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon‎, London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

## Pa'o Karen
### Etymology

From Proto-Karen *sejᴬ (“dead, to die”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *si⁴ (“idem”) (Burling, 1969), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *səj (“to die”). Cognate with S'gaw Karen သံ (thee), Western Pwo ၥံၫ, Western Kayah ꤞꤛꤢꤩ꤭ (thyē).

### Pronunciation

* (Northern & Southern Pa'o) IPA: /si̤³¹/

### Adjective

သီ (transliteration needed)
* dead.

### Verb

သီ (transliteration needed)
* to die.

## S'gaw Karen
### Etymology

From Proto-Karen *saNᴬ (“new”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo သင့် (θâɴ).

### Adjective

သီ • (thaw)
* new

#### Antonyms

* လီၢ်လံၤ (law̱ leē)

### Classifier

သီ • (thaw)
* Classifier for days.

### References

* Luangthongkum, Theraphan (2019) “A view on proto-Karen phonology and lexicon”, in Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society‎, volume 12, number 1

## Shan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sʰiː˨˦/
* Rhymes: -iː

### Etymology 1

Cognate with Thai สี (sǐi), Lao ສີ (sī), Lü ᦉᦲ (ṡii), Tai Dam ꪎꪲ, Phake ꩬီ (sī), Ahom 𑜏𑜣 (sī), Zhuang cae, Zuojiang Zhuang cae.

#### Verb

သီ • (sǐi) (abstract noun လွင်ႈသီ)
* to rub; to scrape.

### Etymology 2

Cognate with Thai สี (sǐi), Lao ສີ (sī), Lü ᦉᦲ (ṡii).

#### Noun

သီ • (sǐi)
* color.