сей

From Proto-Turkic *čɨj (“wet, moist; raw”).

Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (či, “damp, moist”); Tatar чи (çi), Khakas чіг (çíg, “raw, half-baked”), Turkish çiy (“dew”), etc.

• IPA^(key): [sɪ̞j]
• Hyphenation: сей (one syllable)

сей • (sey)

1. wet, damp, soggy

   Сей утын насар яна.

   Sey utïn nasar yana.

   Damp firewood won't burn well.

   Сей бесән.

   Sey besän.

   Damp hay.

2. half-baked (of bread, pastry)
3. raw

• дымлы (dïmlï), еүеш (yeweš)

• ҡоро (qoro)

• сеймал (seymal, “raw material”)

• IPA^(key): [sʲej]

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sь (“this”). Doublet of сий (sij), a borrowing from Old Church Slavonic.

сей • (sej) (demonstrative)

1. (archaic, poetic, literary, humorous) this, this here

   Прочита́л я сей докуме́нт, ну и где там упомина́ется сто́имость?

   Pročitál ja sej dokumént, nu i gde tam upominájetsja stóimostʹ?

   I've read this document, well, where is the cost mentioned there?

• Сей is an archaic form that is seldom used in speech or in prose unless compounded with other words or in certain set phrases:

• сего́дня ― sevódnja ― today
• сейча́с ― sejčás ― immediately
• сию́ мину́ту ― sijú minútu ― this very minute
• до сих по́р ― do six pór ― until now
• по сей день ― po sej denʹ ― until this day
• и то́ и сё ― i tó i sjó ― both this and the other
• то да сё ― to da sjó ― one thing and another
• ни то́ ни сё ― ni tó ni sjó ― neither the one nor the other

• It can also be used in a stilted or jocular style.

• э́тот (étot), да́нный (dánnyj)

• тот (tot)

• сѣй (sěj) (Pre-reform orthography (1918))

сей • (sej)

1. second-person singular imperative imperfective of се́ять (séjatʹ)

From Proto-Uralic *śüdäme.

сей (syey°)

1. heart