sinnchénae

Old Irish

Etymology

A diminutive of sinnach.

Noun

sinnchénae (gender unknown)

1. diminutive of sinnach
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 47^a6

     sinnchenae ― (glosses Latin volpecula)

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
sinnchénae	ṡinnchénae	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sinnchéne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language