sínid

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃiːnʲidʲ/

Verb

sínid

1. (archaic, Munster) third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of sín (“stretch”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of sínid

radical	lenition	eclipsis
sínid	shínid after an, tsínid	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sīnīti, from the same root as *sīros (“long”) (compare Old Irish sír, Welsh hir), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“late, long”) (compare Sanskrit साय (sāyá, “evening”), Latin sērus (“late”), Gothic 𐍃𐌴𐌹𐌸𐌿𐍃 (seiþus, “late”).

Verb

sínid

1. to extend, to stretch

Descendants

• Irish: sín
• Scottish Gaelic: sìn
• Manx: sheeyney, sheeyn

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sínid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language