sich

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.
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

IPA(key): /ziç/

Noun

sich (plural sichs or siches)

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

References
  1. Dmytro Yavornytsky; Ivan Svarnyk, transl. (1892), L. L. Kiriyenko, editor, Історія Запорізьких Козаків, у трьох томах [History of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, in Three Volumes] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, Lviv: Видавництво "Світ" ["Svit" Publishing House], →ISBN.

Further reading

Etymology 2

Adjective

sich (not comparable)

  1. Eye dialect spelling of such.

Pronoun

sich

  1. Eye dialect spelling of such.

Anagrams

German

Etymology

From Old High German sih, from Proto-Germanic *sik. Compare Yiddish זיך‎ (zikh), Dutch zich.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /zɪç/
  • audio(file)

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. Alternative form of sic

Pronoun

sich

  1. Alternative form of sic
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