síi
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *swīs (compare Welsh chwi), from Proto-Indo-European *wos (compare Latin vōs, Old Church Slavonic вꙑ (vy)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sʲiː/
Pronoun
síi (genitive sethar)
- you (nominative plural), ye
- 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. 25a3
- tacco is síi
- I declare it is you
- Synonym: sib
- 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. 25a3
Related terms
- sibsi (emphatic)
- sissi (emphatic)
References
- C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “síi”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
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