Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/sīnā

This Proto-Celtic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Celtic

Etymology

Suggested to be related to *sīniti (“to stretch, extend”) (whence Middle Irish sínid) and *sīros (“long”), from *seh₁- (“long, lasting”), compare semantics of French temps (“time; weather”), from Latin tempus (“time; season”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *temp- (“to stretch”).[1]

Noun

*sīnā f[1]

  1. weather

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *sīnā *sīnai *sīnās
vocative *sīnā *sīnai *sīnās
accusative *sīnam *sīnai *sīnāns
genitive *sīnās *sīnous *sīnom
dative *sīnāi *sīnābom *sīnābos
locative *sīnai *? *?
instrumental *? *sīnābim *sīnābis

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *hin
    • Middle Breton: hynon, hinon (“(nice) weather”)
    • Middle Welsh: hin (“(bad) weather, air”)
      • Welsh: hin
        • → Breton: hin (“climate”)
  • Old Irish: sín (“bad weather, storm”)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*sīnā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 336
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