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From Middle English is, from Old English is, from Proto-Germanic *isti (a form of Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to be”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti (“is”). Cognate with West Frisian is (“is”), Dutch is (“is”), German ist (“is”), Old Swedish is (“is”). The paradigm of "to be" has been since the time of Proto-Germanic a synthesis of four originally distinct verb stems. The infinitive form "to be" is from *bʰuH- (“to become”). The forms is and am are derived from *h₁es- (“to be”) whereas the form are comes from *iraną (“to rise, be quick, become active”). Lastly, the past forms starting with "w-" such as was and were are from *h₂wes- (“to dwell; reside”).

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is

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of be

   He is a doctor. He retired some time ago.

   Should he do the task, it is vital that you follow him.

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     It is a big book. — Yes. Yes it is, Pete.

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2. (colloquial, nonstandard) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) second-person present of be

• ees
• 's
• iz

• as-is

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• bes (AAVE)

i +‎ -s.

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is

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) plural of i

   remember to dot your is

• Opinions vary regarding the use of apostrophes when forming the plurals of letters of the alphabet. New Fowler's Modern English Usage, after noting that the usage has changed, states on page 602 that "after letters an apostrophe is obligatory." The 15th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style states in paragraph 7.16, "To avoid confusion, lowercase letters ... form the plural with an apostrophe and an s". The Oxford Style Manual on page 116 advocates the use of common sense.

• S. I., S.I., SI, Si, Si., si

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /əs/

is

1. am, are, is (present tense, all persons, plural and singular of wees, to be)
2. Forms the perfect passive voice when followed by a past participle

is

1. woman

• Mark Donohue, Syntactic and Lexical Factors Conditioning the Diffusion of Sound Change, Oceanic Linguistics 44 (2005), page 428

is

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) plural of i

From Old Norse íss, from Proto-Germanic *īsą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-.

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /iːs/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -iːs
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -iːˀs

is c (singular definite isen, plural indefinite is)

1. (uncountable) ice (water in frozen form)
2. (uncountable) ice, ice cream (dessert, not necessarily containing cream)
3. (countable) ice, ice cream (ice dessert on a stick or in a wafer cone)

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ɪs/
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1. (deprecated template usage) third-person singular present indicative of zijn; is, equals

   Twaalf min drie is negen — twelve minus three equals nine

is

1. (informal, dialect) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Misspelling of 's.

• si

is

1. (deprecated template usage) Romanization of 𐌹𐍃

Doublet of és and and.

• IPA^(key): [ˈiʃ]
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is (not comparable)

1. also, too, as well

   Én is szeretem a csokit.

   I also like chocolate. (Besides other people)

   A csokit is szeretem.

   I also like chocolate. (Besides other things)

2. even

   Három óráig is tarthat a műtét

   The operation may even take three hours.

3. (after an interrogative word) again (used in a question to ask something one has forgotten)

   Hogy is hívják? ― What's that called, again?

• szintén

(Compound words):

• csakis
• igenis
• legalábbis
• máris
• mégis
• ugyanis
• úgyis

(Expressions):

• a falnak is füle van
• segíts magadon, s az Isten is megsegít
• sok jó ember kis helyen is elfér
• száz szónak is egy a vége

From agus.

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ɪsˠ/, /sˠ/

is

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) reduced form of agus (“and; as”)

   Dia is Muire duit.

   Hello to you, too. (lit. God and Virgin Mary to you.)

   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 1:

     wil nə fatī xō mŭȧ, s dūŕc šē?

     conventional orthography: An bhfuil na fataí chomh maith is dúirt sé?

     Are the potatoes as good as he said?

   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 1:

     ə ʒēĺǵə, l̄aurīr ə gūǵə mūn, ńī h-ønn̥̄ ī s ə ʒēlgə š agń̥ə

     conventional orthography: An Ghaeilge a labhraíthear i gCúige Mumhan, ní hionann í is an Ghaeilge seo againne.

     The Irish used in Munster isn’t the same as our Irish.

From Old Irish is (“is”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”).

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ɪsˠ/, /sˠ/ (before nouns and adjectives)
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ʃ/ (before the pronouns é, í, ea, iad)

is

1. Present/future realis copula form

   Is múinteoir é Dónall. ― Dónall is a teacher. (definition: predicate is indefinite)

   Is é Dónall an múinteoir. ― Dónall is the teacher. (identification: predicate is definite)

   Is féidir liom snámh. ― I can swim. (idiomatic noun predicate)

   Is maith liom tae. ― I like tea. (idiomatic adjective predicate)

   Is mise a chonaic é. ― I'm the one who saw him. (compare Hiberno-English "'Tis I who saw him"; cleft sentence)

   Is é Dónall atá ina mhúinteoir. ― It's Dónall who is a teacher. (cleft sentence)

2. Used to introduce the comparative/superlative form of adjectives

   an buachaill is mó ― the bigger boy; the biggest boy

   Is mó an buachaill ná Séamas.

   The boy is bigger than James.

   Is é Séamas an buachaill is mó in Éirinn!

   James is the biggest boy in Ireland! (lit. "It is James (who is) the boy (who) is biggest in Ireland")

• Used in the present and future for identification or definition of a subject as the person/object identified in the predicate of the sentence. Sometimes used with noun or adjective predicates, especially in certain fixed idiomatic phrases. Used to introduce cleft sentences, which are extremely common in Irish. It is not a verb.

• The copula does not exist in the imperative and does not have a nominal form analogous to the verbal noun. The phrase bí i do (literally “be in your”) is used as the imperative instead (e.g. Bí i d’fhear! – “Be a man!” (lit. “Be in your man!”)), and equivalent non-copular nominal constructions must be used in place of their hypothetical copular equivalents: bheith ábalta (“to be able”, in place of the non-existent nominal form of is féidir), bheith ag iarraidh (“to want”, in place of the non-existent nominal form of is mian), bheith ina (“to be”, as with the imperative), etc.

• In comparative/superlative formations, is is strictly speaking the relative of the copula, hence an buachaill is mó literally means "the boy who is biggest", i.e. "the biggest boy". The thing compared is introduced by ná (“than”).

is

1. woman

• Mark Donohue, Syntactic and Lexical Factors Conditioning the Diffusion of Sound Change, Oceanic Linguistics 44 (2005), page 428 (used in both Kwerba proper and Anggreso Kwerba)

From Proto-Italic *is, from Proto-Indo-European *éy.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /is/, [ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /is/, [is]

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1. (Third-person singular pronoun) he, it (referring to masculine nouns); (demonstrative) this, that

   Is mihi rescripsit.

   He wrote back to me.

   Is amicus est vir bonus.

   This friend is a good man.

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Inflected form of eō (“go”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /iːs/, [iːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /is/, [is]

(deprecated template usage) īs

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) second-person singular present active indicative of eo

• “is”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to sum up..: ut eorum, quae dixi, summam faciam
    
  • (ambiguous) those to whom we owe our being: ei, propter quos hanc lucem aspeximus
    
  • (ambiguous) from youth up: a puero (is), a parvo (is), a parvulo (is)
    
  • (ambiguous) he feels better: melius ei factum est
    
  • (ambiguous) Fortune's favourite: is, quem fortuna complexa est
    
  • (ambiguous) to sully one's fair fame: vitae splendori(em) maculas(is) aspergere
    
  • (ambiguous) no word escaped him: nullum verbum ex ore eius excidit (or simply ei)
    
  • (ambiguous) he is in a suspicious mood: suspicio ei penitus inhaeret
    
  • (ambiguous) the debtor: debitor, or is qui debet
    
  • (ambiguous) the creditor: creditor, or is cui debeo
    
• “is”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[2]
• “is”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “is”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

is

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) third-person singular present indicative of wēsen

is

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Alternative form of his

is

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Alternative form of his

• “his, (pron.1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 8 May 2018.
• “his, (pron.2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 9 May 2018.

is

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Alternative form of heo

• “hir(e), pron (2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 June 2018.

From Old English īs, from Proto-Germanic *īsą; from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyHsom, derivative of *h₁eyH-.

• ise, yes, yce, yys, ys, ijs, yse, ysz, hyse, hyys, ice, isse, ysse, yis

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /iːs/

is (uncountable)

2. ice (frozen water):
   1. A layer of frozen water as a surface.
      • [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

        If thou doſt marry, Ile giue thee / This plague to thy dowry: / Be thou as chaſte as yce, as pure as ſnowe, / Thou ſhalt not ſcape calumny, to a Nunnery goe.]

   2. (rare) A individual portion of ice.
3. (rare, figurative) That which is short-lived like ice.
4. (rare) icy conditions

• isykle
• Iseland

• English: ice
• Scots: ice

• “īs (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-15.

From Old English is, third-person present singular of wesan (“to be”), from Proto-Germanic *isti, third-person present singular of *wesaną (“to be, become”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti.

• es, ys

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /is/

is

2. Template:enm-third-person singular of

• English: is, 's
• Scots: is

is

1. as if, as if it were true, it could be, is it really?, what do you mean by that?, so you say expressing surprise

Usually spelled with the final letter repeated: iss, isss, issss.

• as
• isdaʼ

From Old Norse íss, from Proto-Germanic *īsą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-.

is m (definite singular isen, indefinite plural is or iser, definite plural isene)

1. (uncountable) ice
2. (countable) ice cream

• iskrem (ice cream)

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• “is” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse íss, from Proto-Germanic *īsą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-. Akin to English ice.

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /iːs/

is m (definite singular isen, indefinite plural isar, definite plural isane)

1. ice
2. ice cream

• iskrem (ice cream)

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• “is” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• isi, esi

From Proto-Tani *si, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *si.

is

1. water

• P. T. Abraham (2005) A Grammar of Nyishi Language‎^[3], Delhi: Farsight Publishers and Distributors

From Proto-Germanic *īsą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-, *ey-, *ī- (“ice, frost”). Cognate with Old Frisian īs (West Frisian iis), Old Saxon īs (Low German Ies), Dutch ijs, Old High German īs (German Eis), Old Norse íss (Danish and Swedish is), Gothic 𐌴𐌹𐍃 (eis). There are parallels in many Iranian languages, apparently from the same Indo-European root: Avestan 𐬀𐬉𐬑𐬀 (aēxa-, “frost, ice”), Persian یخ (yakh), Pashto جح (jaḥ), Ossetian их (ix).

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /iːs/

īs n

1. ice

   Hit is swā ċeald þæt wæter sōna tō īse ġefrīest.

   It's so cold that water immediately freezes to ice.

   • the Legend of St Andrew

     Ofer ēastrēamas īs bryċġode.

     The ice formed a bridge over the streams.

2. The runic character ᛁ (/i/ or /i:/)

• īsċeald
• īsiġ

• Middle English: is, ise, yes, yce, yys, ys, ijs, yse, ysz, hyse, hyys, ice, isse, ysse, yis
  • English: ice
  • Scots: ice

From Proto-Germanic *īsą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-. Compare Old Saxon īs, Old English īs, Old Norse íss, Gothic 𐌴𐌹𐍃 (eis).

īs

1. ice

• Middle High German: īs
  • Alemannic German: Iis, Is, Isch

    Walser: isch, éisch

  • Bavarian: ais

    Cimbrian: àis

    Mòcheno: ais

  • Central Franconian: Eis, Ies
  • German: Eis
  • Luxembourgish: Äis
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Pennsylvania German: Eis

  • Vilamovian: ajs
  • Yiddish: אײַז (ayz)

2=h₁es

(deprecated template usage)

The lemma is itself is from Proto-Celtic *esti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti; other forms are from either *h₁es- or *bʰuH-:

• am is from Proto-Celtic *emmi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁esmi, from *h₁es-.

is

1. to be
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14^d26

     Is i persin Crist da·gníu-sa sin.

     It is in the person of Christ that I do that.

This is the so-called "copula", which is distinct from the "substantive verb" at·tá. The copula is used with noun predicates and to introduce a cleft sentence.

• at·tá (substantive verb)

• cesu (“although... is”)
• condid (“so that... is”)
• in (“is... ?”)
• masu (“if... is”)
• ní (“is not”)

• Irish: is

From Proto-Germanic *it.

is (is)

1. his, its

is

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) third-person singular present indicative of wesan

From Proto-Germanic *īsą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- (“ice, frost”). Cognate with Old Frisian īs (West Frisian iis), Old English īs (English ice), Dutch ijs, Old High German īs (German Eis), Old Norse íss (Danish and Swedish is), Gothic 𐌴𐌹𐍃 (eis).

īs n

1. ice
2. The runic character ᛁ (/i/ or /i:/)

• Middle Low German: îs
  • Low German:
    • German Low German: Ies
      • Plautdietsch: Iess

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is

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) plural of i
   • 2003, J. K. Rowling, Lya Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix, Rocco, page 411:

     Se você pôs os pingos nos is e cortou os tês então pode fazer o que quiser!

     If you've dotted your I's and crossed your T's, then you can do whatever you want!

is (not comparable)

1. (Southern Scots) as

• es

is

1. (Southern Scots) as

• es

is (personal, non-emphatic)

1. (Southern Scots) me

• A
• mei (emphatic variant)

is

1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of be

• ir

• 's

is

1. and

• agus

is

1. am, are, is

• This defective verb doesn't have the infinitive, future tense, subjunctive or conditional moods.
• The dependent form, used after particles, is e.
• Is is used when linking the subject of a sentence with an object ("somebody is somebody", "somebody is something", "something is something"), otherwise forms of the verb bi are used:

  Is mise Dòmhnall. ― I am Donald.

  Tha mise ann an taigh-seinnse. ― I am in a pub.

• an e...?
• bu
• chan e
• gur e

From Old Norse íss, from Proto-Germanic *īsą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-.

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is c

1. (uncountable) Ice; frozen water.
2. (countable) Ice; a sheet of ice lying on a body of water.

• is in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (14th ed., online)

From English East.

is

1. East

is (definite accusative isi, plural isler)

1. soot
2. fume (solid deposit)
3. kohl

is

1. here