smúin
Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish smúainid, from smúan (“reflection, consideration”).
Verb
smúin
- Obsolete form of smaoinigh.
- a. 1727, Aodhagán Ó Rathaille, The Poems of Egan O’Rahilly, Irish Texts Society vol. 3, 2nd edition (1911), edited by Patrick S. Dinneen and Tadhg O’Donoghue, p. 154:
- D’éag an salmach, dalta do Dháibhidh,
Nár smúin Drúis ’s a d-Tnúth nár thárlaig.- Dead is the psalm-changer, the disciple of David,
Who thought not of Lust, and was not found in Envy.
- Dead is the psalm-changer, the disciple of David,
- D’éag an salmach, dalta do Dháibhidh,
- a. 1727, Aodhagán Ó Rathaille, The Poems of Egan O’Rahilly, Irish Texts Society vol. 3, 2nd edition (1911), edited by Patrick S. Dinneen and Tadhg O’Donoghue, p. 154:
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