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Afar
Pronunciation 1
- IPA(key): /ˈsinːi/
- Hyphenation: sin‧ni
Pronoun
sínni
- (Southern Afar) yourselves
- (Southern Afar) themselves
- (Awash) ourselves
See also
Pronunciation 2
- IPA(key): /sinˈni/
- Hyphenation: sin‧ni
Determiner
sinní
- (Southern Afar) your own
- (Southern Afar) their own
- (Awash) our own
See also
Afar possessive determiners
References
- E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 138
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie), Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from Swedish sinne.
Pronunciation
Noun
sinni (dialectal)
- stubbornness, perseverance, doggedness, especially in a negative way
Declension
Derived terms
Icelandic
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Norse sinn, a borrowing from Middle Low German.
Noun
sinni n (genitive singular sinnis, nominative plural sinni)
- disposition, mind
- Synonyms: hugur, geð
- opinion
- Synonyms: skoðun, álit
Declension
Declension of sinni (neuter)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Determiner
sinni
- dative feminine singular of sinn (“his/her(s)/its”)
Livonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *sininen. Cognates include Finnish sininen.
Adjective
siņņi
- blue
Old Irish
Etymology
From *sisni, dissimilated from Proto-Celtic *snisni, from *snīs (“we”) (compare Welsh nini, ni).
Pronunciation
Pronoun
sinni (emphatic)
- we
- Synonyms: nini, sisni, snisni
- Is sinni. ― It is we.
Descendants
Old Norse
Etymology 1
From earlier of sinni, from Proto-Germanic *gasinþô (“companion”). Cognate with Old English ġesīþ, Old Saxon gisīth, Old High German gisind, gisindo, Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌸𐌰 (gasinþa), 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌸𐌾𐌰 (gasinþja).
Noun
sinni m (genitive sinna, plural sinnar)
- (poetic) follower, companion
Declension
Declension of sinni (weak an-stem)
Etymology 2
Probably from the dative of sinn (“time, occurrence”).
Noun
sinni n
- time, occurrence
- Synonym: sinn
Usage notes
- As this noun is most frequently used in the dative, it is often impossible to tell apart from the synonymous sinn.
Declension
Declension of sinni (strong ija-stem)
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “sinni”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
Yogad
Pronoun
sinní
- (interrogative) who