sean

sean (plural seans)

1. Dated form of seine.

sean (third-person singular simple present seans, present participle seaning, simple past and past participle seaned)

1. Dated form of seine.
   • 1874, Edmund William Hunt Holdsworth, Deep-sea fishing and fishing boats, page 157:

     Seaning is conducted on a large scale at St. Ives for the capture of pilchards […]

• “sean”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• ENSA, Esan, NAEs, NESA, Nase, Sena, eans, nase, sane

From Old Irish sen (compare Manx shenn), from Proto-Celtic *senos (compare Welsh hen), from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”) (compare Latin senior/senex, Lithuanian sẽnas).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ʃan̪ˠ/^[2], /ʃanˠ/^[3]
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /ʃæːn̪ˠ/

sean (comparative sine) (used predicatively)

1. old

• When used attributively, the prefix sean- is used instead.

sean m (genitive singular sean, nominative plural seana)

1. senior, ancestor
2. oldness; old thing

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sean”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

• seann

From Old Irish sen (compare Manx shenn), from Proto-Celtic *senos (compare Welsh hen), from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”) (compare Latin senior/senex, Lithuanian sẽnas).

• IPA^(key): /ʃɛn/

sean (comparative sine)

1. old

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “sean”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 sen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /ˈsean/

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• Rhymes: -ean
• Syllabification: se‧an

sean

1. inflection of ser:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

sean (nominative plural seans)

1. ocean (large body of water)