Abbreviation of English Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language.

syy

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language terms

From Proto-Finnic *süü (compare Estonian süü), from Proto-Uralic *siwe (compare Eastern Mari ший (šij), Komi-Zyrian сі (si), Tundra Nenets [script needed] (t̜́ì)). The sense “reason, cause” (and those akin to it) was originally figurative, and is also found elsewhere in Finnic.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsyː/, [ˈs̠yː]
• Rhymes: -yː
• Syllabification^(key): syy
• Hyphenation^(key): syy

syy

1. fibre, filament

   Synonyms: kuitu, säie

2. (usually in the plural) grain (linear texture of a material or surface)

   Koivun syyt ovat yleensä suorat.

   The grain of birch is usually straight.

3. (cytology) fibre (long tubular cell found in bodily tissue)
4. cause, reason (source or reason of an event or action; goal, aim, principle) [with illative ‘for’; or with illative of third infinitive ‘to do’]

   turman syyt ― the causes of the accident

   Syy tähän on... ― The reason for this is...

5. reason, cause (motive for an action or determination) [with illative ‘for’; or with illative of third infinitive ‘to do’]

   syy on pahaa pelätä ― there is reason to be afraid of evil

   On syytä tietää, että... ― It is worth knowing that... (literally, “There is a reason to know that...”)

   Ei ole syytä huoleen.

   There is no cause for worry.

6. fault (blame; responsibility for a mistake)

   Synonym: vika

   Se on sinun syytäsi.

   It is your fault.

• (reason): With a nominal ("reason for X"), the nominal is in the illative case (in which case it usually comes after syy) or in the genitive case (in which case it usually comes before syy). With a verb ("reason to X"), the verb is in the first infinitive form.

• “syy”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• -yys

From Proto-Finnic *süü. Cognates include Finnish syy and Estonian süü.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈsyː/, [ˈs̠yː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈsyː/, [ˈʃyː]
• Rhymes: -yː
• Hyphenation: syy

syy

1. reason, cause
2. blame, fault

Declension of syy (type 8/maa, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	syy	syyt
genitive	syyn	syijen
partitive	syytä	syitä
illative	syyhy	syihe
inessive	syys	syis
elative	syyst	syist
allative	syylle	syille
adessive	syyl	syil
ablative	syylt	syilt
translative	syyks	syiks
essive	syynnä, syyn	syinnä, syin
exessive1)	syynt	syint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈsyː/, [ˈs̠yː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈsyː/, [ˈʃyː]
• Rhymes: -yː
• Hyphenation: syy

syy

1. inflection of syyvvä:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. second-person singular imperative connegative

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 560

From Proto-Finnic *süü. Cognates include Finnish syy and Estonian süü.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsyː/
• Hyphenation: syy
• Rhymes: -yː

syy (genitive syyn, partitive syydy)

1. reason, cause

Declension of syy (Type 15/suu, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	syy	syyt
genitive	syyn	syylöin
partitive	syydy	syylöi
illative	syyh	syylöih
inessive	syys	syylöis
elative	syyspäi	syylöispäi
allative	syyle	syylöile
adessive	syyl	syylöil
ablative	syylpäi	syylöilpäi
translative	syykse	syylöikse
essive	syynny	syylöinny
abessive	syyttäh	syylöittäh
comitative	syynke	syylöinke
instructive	syylöiči
prolative	syyči

• Tatjana Boiko (2019), “syy”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN

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