See 'is on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "A representation of the pronunciation of his by a speaker whose dialect lacks the voiceless glottal fricative or transition ([h]).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"10": "",
"11": "",
"12": "",
"13": "",
"14": "",
"15": "",
"16": "",
"17": "",
"18": "",
"19": "",
"2": "pronoun",
"20": "",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"9": "",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "'is",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "'is",
"name": "en-pron"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "pron",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "his"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English pronouns",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English pronunciation spellings",
"parents": [
"Pronunciation spellings",
"Terms by orthographic property",
"Terms by lexical property"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1990, Joan Collins, Love & Desire & Hate, New York, N.Y.: Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 75:",
"text": "When the Hon. Viscount Benjie sees you tonight, dearie, ’is little wee willie winkie is going to get as ’ard as a bit of Brighton rock.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:",
"text": "Yeah, the little weasel’s right. I am goin’ to run away wiv Burt in ’is van.” The woman strutted over to the rat catcher, and took his hand. “We share a deep love of each other.”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Pronunciation spelling of his."
],
"id": "en-'is-en-pron-SmAx-N54",
"links": [
[
"Pronunciation spelling",
"pronunciation spelling"
],
[
"his",
"his#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"pronunciation-spelling"
]
}
],
"word": "'is"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "af",
"2": "contraction"
},
"expansion": "'is",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"lang_code": "af",
"pos": "contraction",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "dis"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Afrikaans entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Cape Afrikaans",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of dis."
],
"id": "en-'is-af-contraction-qOeP3Guf",
"links": [
[
"dis",
"dis#Afrikaans"
]
],
"qualifier": "chiefly at the beginning of sentences",
"raw_glosses": [
"(Cape Afrikaans, chiefly at the beginning of sentences) Alternative form of dis."
],
"tags": [
"Cape-Afrikaans",
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"contraction"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/əs/"
}
],
"word": "'is"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "af",
"2": "contraction"
},
"expansion": "'is",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"lang_code": "af",
"pos": "contraction",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "dis"
}
],
"categories": [
"Afrikaans contractions",
"Afrikaans entries with incorrect language header",
"Afrikaans non-lemma forms",
"Cape Afrikaans",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of dis."
],
"links": [
[
"dis",
"dis#Afrikaans"
]
],
"qualifier": "chiefly at the beginning of sentences",
"raw_glosses": [
"(Cape Afrikaans, chiefly at the beginning of sentences) Alternative form of dis."
],
"tags": [
"Cape-Afrikaans",
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"contraction"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/əs/"
}
],
"word": "'is"
}
{
"etymology_text": "A representation of the pronunciation of his by a speaker whose dialect lacks the voiceless glottal fricative or transition ([h]).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"10": "",
"11": "",
"12": "",
"13": "",
"14": "",
"15": "",
"16": "",
"17": "",
"18": "",
"19": "",
"2": "pronoun",
"20": "",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"9": "",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "'is",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "'is",
"name": "en-pron"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "pron",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "his"
}
],
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English pronouns",
"English pronunciation spellings",
"English terms with quotations",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1990, Joan Collins, Love & Desire & Hate, New York, N.Y.: Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 75:",
"text": "When the Hon. Viscount Benjie sees you tonight, dearie, ’is little wee willie winkie is going to get as ’ard as a bit of Brighton rock.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:",
"text": "Yeah, the little weasel’s right. I am goin’ to run away wiv Burt in ’is van.” The woman strutted over to the rat catcher, and took his hand. “We share a deep love of each other.”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Pronunciation spelling of his."
],
"links": [
[
"Pronunciation spelling",
"pronunciation spelling"
],
[
"his",
"his#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"pronunciation-spelling"
]
}
],
"word": "'is"
}
Download raw JSONL data for 'is meaning in All languages combined (2.3kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (b941637 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.