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Irish
Etymology
Blend of sorn + foirnéis. Apparently attested only in Geoffrey Keating's work Eochair-Sgiath an Aifrinn (literally, ‘Buckler of the Mass’, i.e. an explanatory defense of the Roman Catholic Mass, written ca. 1615), where the phrase ’san tsoirnéis(“in the furnace”) appears twice on p. 114 of the edition edited by Patrick O’Brien and published in 1898.