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Siôn (Welsh pronunciation:) or Sion is a Welsh form of the Anglo-Norman Jean, [1] pronounced in English similarly to the Irish name Seán. Notable people with the Welsh name include: People with the surname
The Seine (/ s eɪ n, s ɛ n / sayn, sen, [1] French: ⓘ) is a 777-kilometre-long (483 mi) river in northern France. [2] Its drainage basin is in the Paris Basin (a geological relative lowland) covering most of northern France. [3]
Pronunciation: English: / ʃ ɑː n / SHAHN Welsh: Gender: Female: Language(s) Welsh language: Origin; Region of origin: Welsh cognate of Jane (Hebrew origin) Other names; Related names: Jane, Sheena, Siobhán
Sien may refer to: Sien of Diauehi , king of an ancient people of north-east Anatolia Sien, Germany , an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde , a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
sian / sien – (From Hokkien/Teochew 𤺪 siān) Bored, tired, or sick of something. [44] siao – (From Hokkien/Teochew 痟) 1. Crazy. Used in response to a silly suggestion. 2. An offensive term used to address a friend. 3. Used to refer to somebody who is a fanatic. "He siao bicycles" is saying that someone is crazy about bicycles. sia suay ...
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).
Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken. This may refer to generally agreed-upon sequences of sounds used in speaking a given word or language in a specific dialect ("correct" or "standard" pronunciation) or simply the way a particular individual speaks a word or language.
The sentence De zon in de zee zien zakken (Eye dialect: De son in de see sien sakke) 'to see the sun go under the sea', pronounced [də ˈsɔn ɪn də ˈsei sin ˈsɑkə] (or, in broader accents, [də ˈɕɔn ɪn də ˈɕei ɕin ˈɕɑkə]) is used to identify speakers of the Amsterdam dialect, who lack the /z/ phoneme.