sinni

• isinni (Northern Afar)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsinːi/
• Hyphenation: sin‧ni

sínni

1. (Southern Afar) yourselves
2. (Southern Afar) themselves
3. (Awash) ourselves

• IPA^(key): /sinˈni/
• Hyphenation: sin‧ni

sinní

1. (Southern Afar) your own
2. (Southern Afar) their own
3. (Awash) our own

• 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)

Borrowed from Swedish sinne.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsinːi/,
• Rhymes: -inːi
• Hyphenation^(key): sin‧ni

sinni (dialectal)

1. stubbornness, perseverance, doggedness, especially in a negative way

• sinnikäs
• sinnitellä

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪnːɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɪnːɪ

From Old Norse sinn, a borrowing from Middle Low German.

sinni n (genitive singular sinnis, nominative plural sinni)

1. disposition, mind

   Synonyms: hugur, geð

2. opinion

   Synonyms: skoðun, álit

• vera glaður í sinni (“to be light-hearted”)
• vera sama sinnis (“to be of the same opinion”)
• uppgjafarsinni

sinni

1. feminine dative singular of sinn

From Proto-Finnic *sininen. Cognates include Finnish sininen.

siņņi

1. blue

From *sisni, dissimilated from Proto-Celtic *snisni, from *snīs (“we”) (compare Welsh nini, ni).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʲin͈ʲi/

sinni (emphatic)

1. we

   Synonyms: nini, sisni, snisni

   Is sinni. ― It is we.

• Irish: sinn
• Scottish Gaelic: sinn
• Manx: shin

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).

sinni m (genitive sinna, plural sinnar)

1. (poetic) follower, companion

Probably from the dative of sinn (“time, occurrence”).

sinni n

1. time, occurrence

   Synonym: sinn

• As this noun is most frequently used in the dative, it is often impossible to tell apart from the synonymous sinn.

• “sinni”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

sinní

1. (interrogative) who