tsi
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tsi"
Translingual edit
Symbol edit
tsi
Aromanian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin quid. Compare Romanian ce.
Pronoun edit
tsi (interrogative)
Bura edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tsi
References edit
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Ewe edit
Noun edit
tsi
- water (including in the form of a river or rain)
- dé asi tsi me — put one's hand in the water
- 2006, Aspect and Modality in Kwa Languages, →ISBN, page 158:
- mia-nyrɔ-e ɖé tɔ-a me né wò-a-no tsi kú
- 1PL:1RR-immerse-3SG ALL river-DEF containing.region LINK 3SG-1RR-drink water die
- We should immerse him in the river so that he would drown. (literally "die by water")
- 2006, Aspect and Modality in Kwa Languages, →ISBN, page 187:
- tsi dî bé ye-a-dza
- water want COMP LOG-SUBJV-ooze
- 'Rain wants to fall' i.e. 'it is about to rain'.
Verb edit
tsi
Lala (South Africa) edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Bantu *-tɪ̀ (“say, quote”).
Verb edit
-tsi
- to say
Mohawk edit
Preposition edit
tsi
Swazi edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Bantu *-tɪ̀ (“say, quote”).
Verb edit
-tsi
- to say
Inflection edit
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
White Hmong edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Hmong *tsjɨᴮ (“what”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
tsi
- used in dab tsi (“what”)
References edit
- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 284.