sinn

• IPA^(key): [sɪnː]

  Rhymes: -ɪnː

sinn n (genitive singular sins, plural sinn)

1. time, times

   á sinni ― once (before); another time

   á hesum sinni ― this time, now

   ikki á hvørjum sinni ― not every time, seldom

   á síðsta sinni ― for the last time

   ikki enn á sinni ― not yet

sinn

1. Imperative singular of sinnen.

• IPA^(key): /sɪnː/
• Rhymes: -ɪnː

From Old Norse sinn. Compare Faroese sinn, Danish sinde, Swedish sin (in någonsin (“ever; at any time”)).

sinn n (genitive singular sinns, no plural)

1. time

   Synonym: skipti

Old Norse sínn, from Proto-Germanic *sīnaz.

sinn m (feminine sín, neuter sitt)

1. Third-person reflexive possessive determiner: his (own), her (own), its (own), their (own)
   • Genesis 5:3 (Icelandic, English)

     Adam lifði hundrað og þrjátíu ár. Þá gat hann son í líking sinni, eftir sinni mynd, og nefndi hann Set.

     When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.

   • 1928, Krummavísa (“Raven Song”, on the Icelandic Wikisource) by Jón Ásgeirsson

     Krummi krunkar úti,
     kallar á nafna sinn:
     „Ég fann höfud af hrúti
     hrygg og gæruskinn.“
     Komdu nú og kroppaðu með mér,
     krummi nafni minn.

     Krummi croaks outside,
     calling his namesake:
     “I found the head of a ram,
     backbone and sheepskin.”
     Come now and peck with me,
     Krummi, my namesake.”

From Old Irish sinni.

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪn̠ʲ/, /ʃɪnʲ/

sinn (emphatic form sinne)

1. we, us (disjunctive)
2. (nonstandard) we (conjunctive)

• Not used as a conjunctive pronoun in the standard language; instead, synthetic verb forms or analytic forms with muid are used in the first person plural. Found with analytic verb forms in colloquial usage in some dialects. Use as a disjunctive pronoun is fully standard.

From Old High German sīn (“to be”), from Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to be”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be, exist”). Cognate with German sein, Dutch zijn.

The imperative sief is from an older subjunctive form. Adjacent dialects of Central Franconian show the stems seiw- and seff-. The former makes the labial explainable as a linking consonant (from Middle High German sī- + vowel), whereas the form seff- is in line with the Luxembourgish but is phonetically unclear. Compare also hief, imperative of hunn (“to have”), whose -f is regular but whose vowel is unexpected.

• IPA^(key): /zin/
  • Rhymes: -in

sinn (third-person singular present ass, preterite war or wor, past participle gewiescht, past subjunctive wier or wär, auxiliary verb sinn)

1. to be

From Middle Low German sin; compare German Sinn, Sinne.

sinn n (definite singular sinnet, indefinite plural sinn, definite plural sinna or sinnene)

1. mind

• sinne

• “sinn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “sinn” in The Ordnett Dictionary

From Middle Low German sin

sinn n (definite singular sinnet, indefinite plural sinn, definite plural sinna)

1. mind

• ro i sinnet

• “sinn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *sīnaz.

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪnː/

sinn

1. his (own), her (own), its (own), their (own)

• sinn in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Old Irish sinni.

• IPA^(key): /ʃiɲ/

sinn

1. we
2. us

   Thèid sinn dhan bhanca a-màireach; chì sibh sinn ann.

   We’ll go to the bank tomorrow; you'll see us there.

• sinne (emphatic)

From Old Norse sinna, from Middle Low German sinnen, from Proto-Germanic *sinnaną.

sinn (preterite sinnä)

1. (intransitive) To consider, contemplate, think.

   Han sinnä långä stånnä på di

   He contemplated for a long while.

From Middle Low German sin. Cognate with Norwegian sinne (“anger, wrath,”) sinn (“mind,”) Icelandic sinni (“disposition, mind, opinion”) Swedish sinne (“mind,”) Danish sind (“mind, temper, disposition.”)

sinn n (definite sinnä)

1. Fierce temperament, headstrongness.

   hä var bara pulä sinnä

   He was fiercely angry (lit. it was but pure anger.)

• illsinnä
• sint
• storsinn

• mo