síans

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Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin sēnsus. Doublet of séis.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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síans m (genitive síansa, nominative plural síansae)

  1. sense (meaning or reason)
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 14d10
      Is samlid léicfimmi-ni doïbsom aisndís dint ṡéns ⁊ din mórálus, manip écóir frisin stoir ad·fíadam-ni.
      It is thus we shall leave to them the exposition of the sense and the morality, if it is not at variance with the history that we relate.

Declension

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Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative síans síansL síansaeH
Vocative síans síansL síansu
Accusative síansN síansL síansu
Genitive síansoH, síansaH síansoL, síansaL síansaeN
Dative síansL síansaib síansaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Irish: sians

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
síans ṡíans unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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