Alternative scripts [ edit ] sín
breast Alternative scripts [ edit ] sín
toface , beopposite sín
reflexive pronoun ,genitive third-person ofseg nominative — accusative seg dative sær genitive sín
Höskuldur Thráinsson, Hjalmar P. Petersen, Jógvan í Lon Jacobsen, Zakaris Svabo Hansen:Faroese : An Overview and Reference Grammar . Tórshavn: Føroya Fróðskaparfelag, 2004 (p. 119 f., 325 ff.) Old Norse sínn Proto-Germanic *sīnaz
sín
his ,her ,its ,their ; the third personpossessive pronoun sín FromGerman Schiene ( “ rail ” ) .
sín (plural sínek
rail sí -n
sín
superessive singular ofsí sín in Géza Bárczi ,László Országh ,et al. , editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN . sín
genitive ofsig sín
inflection ofsinn ( “ his/her(s)/its ” ) feminine nominative singular neuter nominative plural neuter accusative plural FromMiddle Irish sínid [ 2] Proto-Celtic *sīnīti [ 3] *sīros ( “ long ” ) (compareOld Irish sír Welsh hir Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- ( “ late, long ” ) (compareSanskrit साय ( sāyá ,“ evening ” ) ,Latin sērus ( “ late ” ) ,Gothic 𐍃𐌴𐌹𐌸𐌿𐍃 ( seiþus “ late ” ) .
sín (present analytic síneann future analytic sínfidh verbal noun síneadh past participle sínte
tostretch ,extend topass ( transfer from one person to another, hand over ) tolengthen verbal noun síneadh past participle sínte tense singular plural relative autonomous first second third first second third indicative present sínim síneann sínir † síneann sínimid síneann síneann sínid † ashíneann shíneas síneann síntear past shín shíneas shín shínis shín shíneamar shín shín shíneabhair shín shíneadar ashín shín síneadh past habitual shíninn síninn shínteá sínteá shíneadh síneadh shínimis shíneadh sínimis síneadh shíneadh síneadh shínidís shíneadh sínidís síneadh ashíneadh síneadh shíntí síntí future sínfidh sínfead sínfidh sínfir † sínfidh sínfimid sínfidh sínfidh sínfidh sínfid † ashínfidh shínfeas sínfidh sínfear conditional shínfinn sínfinn shínfeá sínfeá shínfeadh sínfeadh shínfimis shínfeadh sínfimis sínfeadh shínfeadh sínfeadh shínfidís shínfeadh sínfidís sínfeadh ashínfeadh sínfeadh shínfí sínfí subjunctive present gosíne sínead † gosíne sínir † gosíne gosínimid síne gosíne gosíne sínid † — gosíntear past dásíninn dásínteá dásíneadh dásínimis síneadh dásíneadh dásínidís síneadh — dásíntí imperative – sínim sín síneadh sínimis sínigí sínidh † sínidís — síntear
* indirect relativeeclipsis
FromOld French signe seing ( “ sign; mark; signature ” ) , fromLatin signum ( “ a mark; sign; token ” ) .Doublet ofséan
sín f genitive singular síne nominative plural síneacha
sign Synonym: comhartha See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
sín f
( archaic , dialectal ) dative singular ofsíon Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931 ),Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry § 126 67 ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “1 sínid (‘stretch out, extend’) ”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009 ),Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden:Brill ,→ISBN page337 Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904 ), “sínim ”, inFoclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla page641 Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977 ), “sín ”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla , Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN FromProto-Celtic *sīnā ( “ weather ” ) . Cognate withWelsh hin Breton hinon ( “ good weather ” ) .[ 1]
IPA (key ) : /ˈsʲiːn/ ( nominative singular and genitive plural ) IPA (key ) : /ˈsʲiːnʲ/ ( accusative and dative singular ) sín f genitive síne nominative plural sína
weather c. 850 Glosses on the Carlsruhe Beda, published inThesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 10–30,Bcr. 33b 14 .i. conscuchud suas ar ómun innasín . i.e. moving upwards for fear of thestorms . Tecosca Cormaic Tecosca Cormaic. The Instructions of King Cormaic Mac Airt (1909, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, page 36, §17, line 8Dech dosínaib céo[ …] The best ofweathers is mist [ …] Often, but not always, with negative connotations.
Feminine ā-stem singular dual plural nominative sín L sín L sína H vocative sín L sín L sína H accusative sín N sín L sína H genitive síne H sín L sín N dative sín L sínaib sínaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
H = triggers aspirationL = triggers lenitionN = triggers nasalizationMutation ofsín radical lenition nasalization sín ṡín sín
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
sín
inflection ofsínn feminine nominative singular neuter nominative / accusative plural sín
genitive ofsik 
