сия

See also: сія

Bulgarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [siˈja̟]

Verb

сия́ • (sijá)

1. second/third-person singular aorist indicative of сия́я (sijája)

Erzya

Сия. (1.1)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʲija/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Mordvinic *śəjä~*śijä, possibly inherited from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ćejŋi (“jewellery, ornament”), whence Northern Sami čikŋa, Eastern Mari ший (šij). Compare also Finnish sievä (“cute, pretty”).

Noun

сия • (śija)

1. silver
   • 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 31:

     Iľado sait tynk martonk ni syŕne ni sija ni piže kaŕkssonk tynk.

     “Do not get any gold or silver or copper to take with you in your belts.”

Declension

Indefinite declension of сия (back-vowel stem (ума) type)

	singular	plural
nominative	сия (śija)	сият (śijat)
genitive	сиянь (śijań)	—
dative	сиянень (śijańeń)	—
ablative	сиядо (śijado)	—
inessive	сиясо (śijaso)	—
elative	сиясто (śijasto)	—
illative	сияс (śijas)	—
prolative	сиява (śijava)	—
translative	сиякс (śijaks)	—
comparative	сияшка (śijaška)	—
abessive	сиявтомо (śijavtomo)	—

Etymology 2

From Proto-Mordvinic *śijə, derived from *śe (“that”) +‎ *-gä. Compare Finnish siellä, Veps sigä (“there”).

Adverb

сия • (śija)

1. there

   Synonyms: тосо (toso), (rare) сесэ (śese)

   Сия чуди лейне.

   Sija čuďi ľejńe.

   There is a river flowing there.

Related terms

• се (śe)

See also

• тия (ťija, “here”)

References

• B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “сия”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс, Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
• Keresztes, László (1986) Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial‎^[1], Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26.

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic	سيا
Cyrillic	сия
Latin	sia

Etymology

From Persian سیاه.

Noun

сия • (siä)

1. ink

Russian

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

сия́ • (sijá)

1. nominative feminine singular of сей (sej)