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===Etymology===
===Etymology===
From {{etyl|goh|de}} {{m|goh|sih}}, from {{inh|de|gem-pro|*sik}}. Compare Yiddish {{l|yi|זיך|tr=zikh}}, Dutch {{m|nl|zich}}.
From {{etyl|goh|de}} {{m|goh|sih}}, from {{inh|de|gem-pro|*sik}}. Compare {{cog|yi|זיך|tr=zikh}}, {{cog|nl|zich}}.


===Pronunciation===
===Pronunciation===

Revision as of 08:15, 18 September 2019

See also: Sich

English

WOTD – 14 October 2016
A sich rada, the highest branch of government of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. It was based at their administrative centre called the Zaporizhian Sich, a semi-autonomous Cossack polity in the 16th to 18th centuries.
File:Запорізький козак.jpg
A Zaporozhian Cossack

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ukrainian Січ (Sič), from Ukrainian сікти (sikty, “to chop”), alluding to the clearing of a forest for an encampment, or the building of a fort with trees that have been cut down.[1]

Pronunciation

(deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA(key): /sit͡ʃ/

Noun

sich (plural sichs or siches)

  1. (historical) An administrative and military centre for the Zaporozhian and Danube Cossacks.
Translations

References

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Further reading

Etymology 2

Adjective

sich (not comparable)

  1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Eye dialect spelling of such.

Pronoun

sich

  1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Eye dialect spelling of such.

Anagrams

German

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German sih, from Proto-Germanic *sik. Compare Yiddish זיך (zikh), Dutch zich.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

sich (both accusative and dative)

  1. (reflexive) Reflexive pronoun of the third person singular: herself, himself, itself, oneself (direct or indirect object).
  2. (reflexive) Reflexive pronoun of the third person plural: themselves (direct or indirect object).

Further reading

  • “sich” in Duden online

Scots

Adjective

sich (comparative mair sich, superlative maist sich)

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

Pronoun

sich

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