shi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "shi"

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of shibire. Coined by Japanese-Canadian geneticist and zoologist David Suzuki, the person who also coined "shibire".

Noun

shi (uncountable)

1. (genetics) Abbreviation of shibire.

Derived terms

shibire

• shi(ts)
• shi(ts1)
• shi(ts2)

 

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃaɪ/ (expressly not /ʃi/)

Pronoun

shi

1. (furry fandom, rare) Alternative form of sie (gender-neutral pronoun)
   • 1999 november 20, "Chakat Goldfur" (username), Furry Art on Ebay...horrible shameless plug, alt.fan.furry, Usenet:

     The mother was Chakat Goldfur and the sire was Garrek Redfox (foxtaur) so she^[sic] has the same red fur but cougar-like markings. Of course shi’s still only a cub yet, but if shi grows up to look anything like the your Jaguar-Vixen, shi’s going to be a heartbreaker!

   • 2001 January 25, "Achowth Keciyl" (username), quoting "A. Seraph" (username), Fur: The one and only Herm Gengimal, in fur.artwork.erotica, Usenet:

     > Unlike most Furry Hermaphrodites I've seen, Clash is fairly

     > androgynous. Shi is remarkable in hir modesty.

     >

     > But shi IS rather naughty, as you can see.

   • 2006, Kenneth Fox, Joined in Mind and Body, Kenneth Fox, →ISBN, page 230:

     Dropping hir forebody down just a little, shi bent over double at the waist. Andrew's eyes blinked open as whiskers met his cheeks just before feline lips. He purred to hir and reached up to caress hir back as shi kissed him ...

Synonyms

• see Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns
• hir (objective form)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪ(ː)/

Noun

shi (uncountable)

1. Apocopic form of shit

Interjection

shi

1. Apocopic form of shit

See also

• she
• She
• Shi
• Shih
• Shii

 

See also

• shi shi, shi-shi (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• -ish, His, Hsi, IHS, Ish, his, ish

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *śūh, from Proto-Indo-European *suh₂-s < *sh₂ew- (“to rain”). Compare Ancient Greek ὕει (húei, “it rains”), Hittite [script needed] (ishuwāi, “(s)he pours out, spills”), Tocharian B suwaṃ (“it rains”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃi]

Noun

shi m (plural shira, definite shiu, definite plural shirat)

1. rain

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	shi	shiu	shira	shirat
accusative		shiun
dative	shiu	shiut	shirave	shirave
ablative			shirash

Declension of shi

References

1. Stefan Schumacher & Joachim Matzinger, Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2013), 226.

Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin sic. Compare to Daco-Romanian și.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃi]

Conjunction

shi

1. and
2. also

Dena'ina

Pronoun

shi

1. I, me (first-person singular)

Related terms

• sh-

Drung

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *səj.

Verb

shi

1. to die

References

• Ross Perlin (2019) A Grammar of Trung‎, Santa Barbara: University of California

Esperanto

Pronoun

shi

1. H-system spelling of ŝi

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃí/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʃɪ́]

Pronoun

shi m sg (feminine ita, plural su)

1. he (3rd person singular pronoun)

See also

• másà (3rd person singular masculine indirect object enclitic pronoun)
• shí (3rd person singular masculine independent object pronoun)
• -sà (3rd person singular masculine possessive enclitic pronoun)

Japanese

Romanization

shi

1. The hiragana syllable し (shi) or the katakana syllable シ (shi) in Hepburn romanization.

Jingpho

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ts(j)i(j) ~ tsjaj (“ten”).

Numeral

shi

1. ten

Kwama

Noun

shi

1. tooth

References

• Goldberg, Justin, Asadik, Habte, Bekama, Jiregna, Mengistu, Mulat (2016) Gwama – English Dictionary‎, SIL International

Mandarin

Romanization

shi (shi⁵／shi⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄕ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 匙
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 殖
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 𥫽

shi

1. Nonstandard spelling of shī.
2. Nonstandard spelling of shí.
3. Nonstandard spelling of shǐ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of shì.

Usage notes

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪ/

Pronoun

shi

1. (Southern Scots, personal) she

Usage notes

Used alongside the English she (/ʃiː/).

See also

• hei

Yanomamö

Noun

shi (plural shi pë)

1. feces, castings, poop

References

• Lizot, Jacques (2004) Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmɨ‎ (in Spanish), Vicariato apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho, →ISBN

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	shi
Brazilian standard	shi
New Tribes	shi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃi]

Verb

shi

1. (transitive) to tear, to slash, to scratch

Derived terms

• eshi

 

References

• Hall, Katherine (2007) “-iši-”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021