siu

• sī, si

Inherited from Old High German siu, si, from Proto-West Germanic *si(j)u, *sī, from Proto-Germanic *sī.

siu f

1. she (feminine singular nominative)

Inherited from Old High German siu.

siu n pl

1. nominative/accusative neuter plural of ëȥ: they

Middle High German personal pronouns

Number	Person	Gender	Nominative	Genitive	Dative	Accusative
Singular	First		ich	mīn	mir	mich
	Second		du, dū	dīn	dir	dich
	Third	Masculine	ër CG hë(r)	sīn	im(e)	in
		Feminine	siu	ir(e)	ir(e)	sie
		Neuter	ëȥ CG iȥ, it	es	im(e)	ëȥ CG iȥ, it
Plural	First		wir	unser	uns	uns, unsich
	Second		ir	iuwer	iu, iuch	iuch
	Third	Masculine	sie	ir(e)	in	sie
		Feminine
		Neuter	siu			siu
The distinction of the forms siu and sie as shown above is typical of earlier Upper German texts, but was never general. The forms sī and si existed additionally and all four were increasingly used without differentiation.

• Alemannic German: si
• Bavarian:

  Cimbrian: zi, si (Luserna), ze

  Mòcheno: si

• German: sie
• Hunsrik: sie
• Luxembourgish: si
• Yiddish: זי (zi)

• siv, siw, syu

From Old Norse sjau.

siu

1. seven

• Danish: syv

From Proto-Germanic *iz and *hiz. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

siu

1. she

• sia

• Middle Dutch: si, sie, soe, so
  • Dutch: zij
    • Afrikaans: sy
  • Limburgish: zie

• “siu”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “zij”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Originally the dative of so (“this”).

• IPA^(key): /sʲiu̯/

siu

1. here

   Synonym: sund

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 111^c13

     Is hé ru·fiastar cumachtae inna díglae do·mbi{u}r-siu húa londas, intí du·écigi{gi} is ar trócairi ⁊ censi du·bir-siu forunni siu innahí fo·daimem ré techt innúnn.

     He who will know the power of the punishment which you sg inflict by means of wrath, it is he who will see that it is for the sake of mercy and gentleness that you inflict on us here the things that we suffer before going there.

siu

1. Alternative form of so used after the deictic particle í and its derivatives

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 siu, síu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 480, page 303

From Proto-Germanic *iz and *hiz.

siu f

1. she

• Low German: se

siu n pl

1. they

• Low German: se

• syū

From Old Norse sjau, from Proto-Germanic *sebun, from earlier *sebunt, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.

siū

1. seven

• Swedish: sju

• sivu

From Latin sēbum (“sebum”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiu/
• Hyphenation: si‧u

siu m (plural sii)

1. fat, sebum

• IPA^(key): [ˈsi.u]

siu

1. (transitive) to slice

Conjugation of siu
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	tosiu	fosiu	misiu
2nd	nosiu	nisiu
3rd	Masculine	osiu	isiu, yosiu†
Feminine	mosiu
Neuter	isiu
† - archaic

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh