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Irish
Verb
seinnid
- (Munster, otherwise archaic) third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of seinn
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Old Irish
Etymology
From a conflation of two verbs due to the Irish merger of word-initial *sw- and *s-.
- The meaning "to play a musical instrument" derives from Proto-Celtic *swannati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂-. The conjugation is derived entirely from *swannati; the labial consonants in the middle of the reduplicated preterite and future stems are regular, as medial -sw- generally lenited into them.
- The meaning "to strike" is from Proto-Celtic *sannati, from Proto-Indo-European *senh₂- (“to reach, attain”). The expected preterite reduplication, *siann- ← *se-sann-, was supplanted by that of *swannati. However, the original formation survives in the fossilized defective verb do·coissin (“to exist”) (← dī-kom-sesanne).
Pronunciation
Verb
seinnid (conjunct ·seinn, verbal noun seinm)
- to play (a musical instrument)
- to strike
Inflection
Simple, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, s future, s subjunctive
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sennait
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·seinn
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·senned
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·sendítis
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sephainn
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ro·sephaind
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·ruiphnetar
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sibsa
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sifais
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seinm
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Derived terms
Descendants
References
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 seinnid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 seinnid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language