English word origin

Etymology of Si

From clipping of various words beginning with the syllable /saɪ/.

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The source etymologies

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Source etymology 1

Original entry ↗

name

A diminutive of the male given name Simon. · A diminutive of the female given name Simone. · A diminutive of the male given name Silas.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

From clipping of various words beginning with the syllable /saɪ/.

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Source etymology 2

Original entry ↗

name

A river in Shandong, China. · A county of Suzhou, Anhui, China. · Various prefectures of imperial China. · A surname from Mandarin.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanizations of the Mandarin pronunciations of Chinese 泗 (Sì), 肆 (Sì), and 姒 (Sì, “a surname, older brother's wife”).

Relationships mentioned by the source

These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.

Derivation mention泗zh

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Machine-source provenance

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