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Czech
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Verb
sní
- third-person singular present indicative of sníst
- (colloquial) third-person plural present indicative of sníst
- Synonym: snědí
Etymology 2
Verb
sní
- third-person singular/plural present indicative of snít
Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
sní f (genitive singular sní)
- verbal noun of snigh
Declension
Verb
sní
- present subjunctive analytic of snigh
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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sní
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shní after an, tsní
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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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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *snīs (compare Welsh ni), from Proto-Indo-European *nos, compare Latin nōs, Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍃 (uns).
Pronunciation
Pronoun
sní (genitive nathar)
- we
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 19a15
o sní credentes in Christo- even we, believing in Christ
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 124b3
Ní sní cetid·deirgni ⁊ ní sní dud·rigni nammá.- We have not done it first, and we have not done it alone.
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