English

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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shi (uncountable)

  1. (genetics) Abbreviation of shibire.
Derived terms
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shibire

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

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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 ...
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Etymology 3

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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shi (uncountable)

  1. Apocopic form of shit

Interjection

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shi

  1. Apocopic form of shit

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Anagrams

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Albanian

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Etymology

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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]

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Noun

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

  1. rain

Declension

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References

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

Aromanian

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Etymology

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From Latin sic. Compare to Daco-Romanian și.

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Conjunction

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shi

  1. and
  2. also

Dena'ina

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Pronoun

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shi

  1. I, me (first-person singular)
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Drung

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Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *səj.

Verb

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shi

  1. to die

References

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  • Ross Perlin (2019) A Grammar of Trung[1], Santa Barbara: University of California

Esperanto

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Pronoun

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shi

  1. H-system spelling of ŝi

Hausa

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Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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shi m sg (feminine ita, plural su)

  1. he (3rd person singular pronoun)

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  • 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

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Romanization

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shi

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

Jingpho

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Etymology

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

Numeral

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shi

  1. ten

Kwama

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Noun

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shi

  1. tooth

References

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  • Goldberg, Justin, Asadik, Habte, Bekama, Jiregna, Mengistu, Mulat (2016) Gwama – English Dictionary[2], SIL International

Mandarin

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Romanization

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shi (shi5 / shi0, Zhuyin ˙ㄕ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of
  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

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  • 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

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Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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shi

  1. (Southern Scots, personal) she

Usage notes

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Used alongside the English she (/ʃiː/).

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Yanomamö

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Noun

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shi (plural shi pë)

  1. feces, castings, poop

References

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  • Lizot, Jacques (2004) Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmɨ[3] (in Spanish), Vicariato apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho, →ISBN

Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV shi
Brazilian standard shi
New Tribes shi

Pronunciation

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Verb

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shi

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

Derived terms

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References

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  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “-iši-”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[4], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021