sifín

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish simend, from Old Irish semend, altered by assimilation to the suffix -ín.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃɪfʲiːnʲ/[4]

Noun

sifín m (genitive singular sifín, nominative plural sifíní)

  1. blade (narrow leaf of a grass or cereal)
  2. straw, stalk
    Ní fiú sifín cocháin é.
    It is not worth a straw.
    Ná bain taca as sifín.
    Don’t lean on a broken reed.
  3. bulrush

Declension

Declension of sifín (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative sifín sifíní
vocative a shifín a shifíní
genitive sifín sifíní
dative sifín sifíní
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an sifín na sifíní
genitive an tsifín na sifíní
dative leis an sifín
don sifín 		leis na sifíní

Mutation

Mutated forms of sifín
radical lenition eclipsis
sifín shifín
after an, tsifín 		not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seifín”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  2. ^ “sifín”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  3. ^ Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “simhinn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 319, page 112

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “síṫḃín”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 648
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “sifín”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 1027; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sifín”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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