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ies

1. (rare) plural of i, the name of the letter I.
   • 1856, Goold Brown, The First Lines of English Grammar, page 10:

     These names […] may form regular plurals; thus, Aes, Bees, Cees, Dees, Ees, Effs, Gees, Aitches, Ies, Jays, Kays, Ells, Ems, Ens, Oes, Pees, Kues, Ars, Esses, Tees, Ues, Vees, Double-ues, Exes, Wies, Zees.

   • 1998, Ricardo Corona, "These Esses" ("Esses esses"), in Other Shores (Outras Praias), translated by Ricardo Corona & Charles Perrone

     to say (full of ees, ies, ues) that plurals are always two or more

• -ise, -sie, EIS, EIs, ESI, I'se, ISE, sei, sie

ies (third-person singular present indicative iasi/iase, past participle ishitã)

1. Alternative form of es

From Proto-Germanic *iz. Cognate with Gothic 𐌹𐍃 (is), German er.

• Krause & Slocum reconstruct IPA^(key): /es/ with a short vowel[1]

ies

1. he
   • 1589, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, letter

     Ies Varthata. Ille fecit.

From i- (indeterminate correlative prefix) +‎ -es (correlative suffix of genitives).

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• IPA^(key): [ˈies]
• Rhymes: -ies
• Hyphenation: i‧es

ies (plural ies, accusative singular ies, accusative plural ies)

1. someone's (indeterminate correlative of genitives)

• ies ajn (“anyone's”)
• iesaĵo (“property, s.t. belonging to s.o.”)

From Proto-Finnic *iges, borrowed from Proto-Slavic *jьgo (gen. *jьga, *jьžese; compare Old East Slavic иго (igo), gen. ига (iga), *ижесе (*ižese)), from earlier *jъgo (gen. *jъga, *jъgese), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *juga-, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

• IPA^(key): /ˈie̯s/, [ˈie̞̯s̠]
• Rhymes: -ies
• Syllabification^(key): ies

ies

1. yoke

   Synonyms: (for people) korento, niskakorento, ämmänlänki

2. (figuratively) yoke, restraint, burden, load; repression, slavery, oppression, persecution, tyranny

   Synonyms: sorto, orjuus

   • 2006 [1742], David Hume, Juha Koivisto, transl., Esseitä, →ISBN, Taitojen ja tieteiden kehityksestä ja synnystä [Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences]:

     Mutta kamppailtuaan aikansa tämän ieksen poistamiseksi ihmiskunta on palannut lähes aiempaan tilanteeseen; Eurooppa on nykyään rakenteeltaan kuin suurennettu kopio Kreikasta.

     But mankind, having at length thrown off this yoke, affairs are now returned nearly to the same situation as before, and Europe is at present a copy at large, of what Greece was formerly a pattern in miniature.

   ikeen alla ― under the yoke

Possibly informal:

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “иго”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress

• eis, esi-, sei, sie

ies

1. 3rd person singular future indicative form of iet
2. 3rd person plural future indicative form of iet

ies

1. second-person singular imperfect indicative of estre

ies

1. inflection of ieși:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative

• oss (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan)
• òss (Surmiran)
• öss (Puter, Vallader)

From Latin ossum, popular variant of os.

ies m

1. (Sursilvan) bone

From Old Frisian ēs, from Proto-Germanic *ēsą.

• IPA^(key): /iə̯s/

ies c (plural iezen)

1. bait

   Synonym: lokies

2. carrion

• lokies