Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/sīnā

This Proto-Celtic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Celtic

Etymology

Suggested to be related to *sīniti (“to stretch, extend”) (whence Middle Irish sínid) and *sīros (“long”), from *seh₁- (“long, lasting”), compare semantics of French temps (“time; weather”), from Latin tempus (“time; season”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *temp- (“to stretch”).

Noun

*sīnā f

1. weather

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*sīnā	*sīnai	*sīnās
vocative	*sīnā	*sīnai	*sīnās
accusative	*sīnam	*sīnai	*sīnāms
genitive	*sīnās	*sīnous	*sīnom
dative	*sīnāi	*sīnābom	*sīnābos
locative	*sīnai	*?	*?
instrumental	*?	*sīnābim	*sīnābis

Related terms

• *sīniti
• *sīros

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic: *hin
  • Middle Breton: hynon, hinon (“(nice) weather”)
    • Breton: hinon
  • Middle Welsh: hin (“(bad) weather, air”)
    • Welsh: hin
      • → Breton: hin (“climate”)
• Old Irish: sín (“bad weather, storm”)
  • Irish: síon
  • Scottish Gaelic: sian