sní

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sni"

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsɲiː]

Etymology 1

Verb

sní

  1. third-person singular present indicative of sníst
  2. (colloquial) third-person plural present indicative of sníst
    Synonym: snědí

Etymology 2

Verb

sní

  1. third-person singular/plural present indicative of snít

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʃn̠ʲiː]

Noun

sní f (genitive singular sní)

  1. verbal noun of snigh

Declension

Declension of sní (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative sní
vocative a shní
genitive sní
dative sní
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an tsní
genitive na sní
dative leis an tsní
don tsní

Verb

sní

  1. present subjunctive analytic of snigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of sní
radical lenition eclipsis
sní shní
after an, tsní
not applicable

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

Lakota

Alternative forms

Adjective

sní

  1. (of an inanimate object) cold; cold to the touch

Affix

sní

  1. (of an inanimate object) to make cold
  2. (of an inanimate object) to snuff out

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *snīs (compare Welsh ni), from Proto-Indo-European *nos, compare Latin nōs, Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍃 (uns).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sʲn͈ʲiː/

Pronoun

sní (genitive nathar)

  1. we
    • 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. 19a15
      o sní credentes in Christo
      even we, believing in Christ
    • 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. 124b3
      sní cetid·deirgni ⁊ ní sní dud·rigni nammá.
      We have not done it first, and we have not done it alone.

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