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Irish
Pronunciation
Verb
sínid
- (archaic, Munster) third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of sín (“stretch”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| sínid
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shínid
after an, tsínid
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not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Middle Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *sīnīti, from the same root as *sīros (“long”) (compare Old Irish sír, Welsh hir), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“late, long”) (compare Sanskrit साय (sāyá, “evening”), Latin sērus (“late”), Gothic 𐍃𐌴𐌹𐌸𐌿𐍃 (seiþus, “late”).
Verb
sínid
- to extend, to stretch
Descendants
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