síans
Old Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin sēnsus. Doublet of séis.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsíans m (genitive síansa, nominative plural síansae)
- sense (meaning or reason)
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 14d10
- Is samlid léicfimmi-ni doïbsom aisndís dint ṡéns ⁊ din mórálus, manip écóir frisin stoir ad·fíadam-ni.
- It is thus we shall leave to them the exposition of the sense and the morality, if it is not at variance with the history that we relate.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 14d10
Declension
editMasculine u-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | síans | síansL | síansaeH |
Vocative | síans | síansL | síansu |
Accusative | síansN | síansL | síansu |
Genitive | síansoH, síansaH | síansoL, síansaL | síansaeN |
Dative | síansL | síansaib | síansaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
edit- Irish: sians
Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
síans | ṡíans | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “síans, séns”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language