# sies
## English
### Etymology 1

From Afrikaans.

#### Interjection

sies
* (South Africa) Expressing disgust, disappointment, or annoyance.
** 2008, William Higham, Nakada's Touch, page 316:'Sies, man,' a voice said. 'You're a domkop. How you gonna see 'em?'
** 2011, Niq Mhlongo, After Tears, page 13:“Sies, man!” she said to herself. “Where are the men of this house? Is anybody home?”

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

sies
* third-person singular simple present indicative of sie

#### Noun

sies
* plural of sie

### Anagrams

* sise, seis, Isse, -esis

## Aragonese
### Etymology

From Latin sex. Akin to Spanish seis.

### Numeral

sies
* six

## German
### Alternative forms

* sie's

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ziːs/
* Hyphenation: sies

### Contraction

sies
* Contraction of sie es.
** 1843, Brothers Grimm, “Der Froschkönig oder der eiserne Heinrich”, in Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, Band 1‎, 5th edition, page 4:Als der Frosch auf den Stuhl gekommen war, sprach er „nun schieb mir dein goldenes Tellerlein näher, damit wir zusammen essen.“ Das that sie nun, aber man sah wohl daß sies nicht gerne that. Der Frosch ließ sichs gut schmecken, aber ihr blieb fast jedes Bißlein im Halse.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Hunsrik
### Alternative forms

* siis (Wiesemann spelling)

### Etymology

From Central Franconian söß, from Middle High German süeze, from Old High German suozi, from Proto-West Germanic *swōtī, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz, from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsiːs/
* Rhymes: -iːs
* Syllabification: sies
* Homophone: Sies

### Adjective

sies (comparative sieser, superlative siesest)
* sweet
** 2022 November, Naye Testamënt Tswaayxproochich [Bilingual New Testament], Barueri: Sociedade Bíblica do Brasil, →ISBN, Apokalipse 10:10:Tan hon ich tas pichelche kehool fom ëngel sayn hant un hon em kes, un in mayn munt waar tas siis wii hoonich. Awer, wan ich en xon uner kexlikt hat, is mayne maache sauer kep.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Derived terms

* bittersies
* Sies
* Siesichkeet
* Sieskartoffel
* Siesransch

#### See also

Basic tastes in Hunsrik · Geschmack (layout · text) :
| sies | sauer | salsich | bitter | {{{spicy}}} | [Term?] |

### References

* ↑ Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “sies”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 151, column 1

## Ladin
### Etymology

From Latin sex.

### Adjective

sies
* six

### Noun

sies m (uncountable)
* six

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈsi.eːs/, [ˈs̠ieːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈsi.es/, [ˈsiːes]

### Verb

siēs
* (Old Latin or poetic) second-person singular present active subjunctive of sum

## Maltese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɪːs/

### Etymology 1

* Root
* s-j-s
* 4 terms
From Arabic أَسَاس (ʔasās). Compare Moroccan Arabic ساس (sās), Tunisian Arabic ساس (ses).

#### Noun

sies m (plural sisien)
* foundation, basis

### Etymology 2

* Root
* s-w-s
* 1 term
From Arabic سَاسَ (sāsa, “to lead, direct”) with semantic shift from leading to being led.

#### Verb

sies (imperfect jsus)
* (with wara) to follow persistently, to tail after

##### Conjugation
## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

sies
* passive form of si

## Welsh
### Etymology

Borrowed from English chess.

### Noun

sies m (uncountable, not mutable)
* chess

#### Synonyms

* gwyddbwyll