síi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sii"

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): /ˈsʲiː/

Pronoun

síi (genitive sethar)

  1. you (nominative plural), ye
    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
      tacco is síi
      I declare it is you

Mutation

Mutation of síi
radical lenition nasalization
síi ṡíi síi

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Palula

Etymology

    Inherited from Sanskrit स्वप॑ति (svápati), possibly a back-formation from Vedic Sanskrit स्व॒पन् (svapán, nom.m.sg.aor.ptc), from Proto-Indo-European *swép-t, from *swep-.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /síi/

    Verb

    síi (intransitive, Perso-Arabic spelling سی)

    1. to sleep

    Conjugation

    Conjugation of síi (T-conj w/ e-ending)
    imperative
    infinitive suáai
    converb seé
    obligative sueeṇḍeéu
    copredicative participle seeíim
    agentive verbal noun suainií
    singular plural
    m f m f
    verbal noun suáaṭu suéeṭi suáaṭa suéeṭim
    present suáanu suéeni suáana suéenim
    perfective sútu súti súta sútim
    future 1st súum sáaya
    2nd síiṛ síit
    3rd síi síin

    References

    • Henrik Liljegren; Naseem Haider (2011), “síi”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎[1], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN
    • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “svápati”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 804