sní

See also: sni, śni, and -sni

Czech

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈsɲiː]

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Verb

sní

  1. third-person singular present indicative of sníst
  2. (colloquial) third-person plural present indicative of sníst

Etymology 2

Verb

sní

  1. inflection of snít:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. third-person plural present indicative

Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ʃn̠ʲiː]

Noun

sní f (genitive singular sní)

  1. verbal noun of snigh

Declension
Declension of sní

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative sní
Vocative a shní
Genitive sní
Dative sní

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an tsní
Genitive na sní
Dative leis an tsní

don tsní

Verb

sní

  1. present subjunctive analytic of snigh

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sní shní
after an, tsní		 not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *snīs (compare Welsh ni), from Proto-Indo-European *nos, compare Latin nōs, Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍃 (uns).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sʲn͈ʲiː/

Pronoun

sní (genitive nathar)

  1. we
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 19a15
      o sní credentes in Christo
      Even we, believing in Christ

  • nini (emphatic)
  • sinni (emphatic)
  • sisni (emphatic)
  • snisni (emphatic)
  • ar (possessive determiner)
  • mé (singular)

References
  • “mé” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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