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Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *swīs (compare Welsh chwi), from Proto-Indo-European *wos (compare Latin vōs, Old Church Slavonic вꙑ (vy)).
Pronunciation
Pronoun
síi (genitive sethar)
- you (nominative plural), ye
- Synonym: sib
- 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. 25a3
tacco is síi- I declare it is you
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Phalura
Etymology
From Sanskrit स्वपति (svapati, “sleeps”).
Pronunciation
Verb
síi (intransitive, Perso-Arabic spelling سی)
- to sleep
Inflection
T (Prs): suáanu, (Pfv): sútu, (Cv): seé, (Imp): so
References
- Liljegren, Henrik, Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7), Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “síi”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press