seinnid

Irish

Verb

seinnid

1. (Munster, otherwise archaic) third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of seinn

Mutation

Mutated forms of seinnid

radical	lenition	eclipsis
seinnid	sheinnid after an, tseinnid	not applicable

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

Old Irish

Etymology

From a conflation of two verbs due to the Irish merger of word-initial *sw- and *s-.

• The meaning "to play a musical instrument" derives from Proto-Celtic *swannati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂-. The conjugation is derived entirely from *swannati; the labial consonants in the middle of the reduplicated preterite and future stems are regular, as medial -sw- generally lenited into them.
• The meaning "to strike" is from Proto-Celtic *sannati, from Proto-Indo-European *senh₂- (“to reach, attain”). The expected preterite reduplication, *siann- ← *se-sann-, was supplanted by that of *swannati. However, the original formation survives in the fossilized defective verb do·coissin (“to exist”) (← dī-kom-sesanne).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʲen͈ʲəðʲ/, [sʲen͈ʲiðʲ]

Verb

seinnid (conjunct ·seinn, verbal noun seinm)

1. to play (a musical instrument)
2. to strike

Inflection

Simple, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, s future, s subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	abs.						sennait
	conj.			·seinn
	rel.
imperfect indicative				·senned			·sendítis
preterite	abs.			sephainn
	conj.
	rel.
perfect	deut.			ro·sephaind
	prot.						·ruiphnetar
future	abs.	sibsa		sifais
	conj.
	rel.
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
past subjunctive
imperative
verbal noun		seinm
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• do·seinn

Descendants

• Irish: seinn
• Scottish Gaelic: seinn

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 seinnid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 seinnid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language