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sní
sní
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ʃn̠ʲiː]
Noun
sní f (genitive singular sní)
- verbal noun of snigh
Declension
Declension of sní
Fourth declension
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Verb
sní
- present subjunctive analytic of snigh
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| sní | shní after an, tsní |
unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *snīs (compare Welsh ni), from Proto-Indo-European *nos, compare Latin nōs, Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍃 (uns).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sʲn͈ʲiː/
Pronoun
sní
- 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
- o sní credentes in christo
- 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