síans

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sēnsus. Doublet of séis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sʲiːa̯ns]

Noun

síans m (genitive síansa, nominative plural síansae)

  1. 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.

Declension

Masculine u-stem
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:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Irish: sians

Mutation

Mutation of síans
radical lenition nasalization
síans ṡíans síans

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

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