sinnach

Old Irish

Alternative forms

sindach

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *senūnākos, from Proto-Celtic *senos (“old one”, n-stem noun) + adjectival suffix *-ākos (Old Irish -ach) (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “citation needed”)

Noun

sinnach m

fox
- Broccán's Hymn, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. 2, p. 342
  As·rir in sinnach n-allaid do ráith a aithig in trúaig: dochum feda con·selai cé do·sefnatar int slúaig.
  She gave the wild fox to her vassal, the wretched one; it went to the woods, although the host chased after it.
- c. 775, Táin Bó Fraích from the Book of Leinster, published in Táin bó Fraích (1974, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited by Wolfgang Meid, line 53
  Do·sennat na secht n-aige do Ráith Chrúachan, ⁊ secht sinnchu ⁊ secht míla maige ⁊ secht turcu alta, conda·rubatar ind óic issind aurlaind in dúine.
  [The hounds] chase the seven deer to Ráith Chrúachan, in addition to seven foxes, seven hares, and seven wild boars, until the youths struck down [the hunted animals] in the lawn of the fort.

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	sinnach	sinnach^L	sinnaig^L
Vocative	sinnaig	sinnach^L	sinnchu^H
Accusative	sinnach^N	sinnach^L	sinnchu^H
Genitive	sinnaig^L	sinnach	sinnach^N
Dative	sinnuch^L	sinnchaib	sinnchaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Synonyms

crimthan

Derived terms

sinnchán

Descendants

Middle Irish: sinnach
- Irish: sionnach
- Manx: shynnagh
- Scottish Gaelic: sionnach

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
sinnach	ṡinnach	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.