si
Portuguese
/si/
pronoun
Definitions
- (following a preposition) oneself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, yourselves, themselves.
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese si (yes) inherited from Latin sibi inherited from Proto-Indo-European *sébʰye.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*sébʰye
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- sibi Latin
- sibimet Latin
- sē Latin
- sīc Latin
- sīc (est) Latin
- si Italian
- sé Italian
- amour de soi French
- se French
- soi French
- se Spanish, Castilian
- sí Spanish, Castilian
- *swé Proto-Indo-European
- *sébʰye Proto-Indo-European
- sim Portuguese
- sei Old French
- sie Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- sieși Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- si Old Portuguese
- si si Limburgan, Limburger, Limburgish
- sisi Limburgan, Limburger, Limburgish
- si Chavacano