sinnach

Old Irish

Alternative forms

sindach

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *senūnākos, from Proto-Celtic *senos (“old one”, n-stem noun) + adjectival suffix *-ākos (Old Irish -ach) (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

sinnach m

fox
- Broccán's Hymn, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. 2, p. 342
  As·rir in sinnach n-allaid do ráith a aithig in trúaig: dochum feda con·selai cé do·sefnatar int slúaig.
  She gave the wild fox to her vassal, the wretched one; it went to the woods, although the host chased after it.
- c. 775, “Táin Bó Fraích”, in Book of Leinster; republished as Ernst Windisch, editor, Táin bó Fraích, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1974, line 53:
  Do·sennat na secht n-aige do Ráith Chrúachan, ⁊ secht sinnchu ⁊ secht míla maige ⁊ secht turcu alta, conda·rubatar ind óic issind aurlaind in dúine.
  [The hounds] chase the seven deer to Ráith Chrúachan, in addition to seven foxes, seven hares, and seven wild boars, until the youths struck down [the hunted animals] in the lawn of the fort.

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	sinnach	sinnach^L	sinnaig^L
vocative	sinnaig	sinnach^L	sinnchu^H
accusative	sinnach^N	sinnach^L	sinnchu^H
genitive	sinnaig^L	sinnach	sinnach^N
dative	sinnuch^L	sinnchaib	sinnchaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Middle Irish: sinnach
- Irish: sionnach
- Manx: shynnagh
- Scottish Gaelic: sionnach
⇒ Middle Irish: sinnchán

Mutation

Mutation of *sinnach*
radical	lenition	nasalization
sinnach	ṡinnach	sinnach

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