suí
See also: Appendix:Variations of "sui"
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /suˈi/
Verb
suí
- first-person singular preterite indicative form of suar
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sˠiː/
Etymology 1
From Old Irish suide (compare Welsh sedd), from Proto-Celtic *sodyom, from Proto-Indo-European *sodyom (compare Latin solium (“seat, chair”), from *sed-.
Alternative forms
- suidhe (superseded)
Noun
suí m (genitive singular as substantive suí, genitive as verbal noun suite, nominative plural suíonna)
- verbal noun of suigh
- Tá mé i mo shuí. ― I am sitting; I am up (i.e. out of bed).
- sitting position
- state of being arisen
- state of being roused
- session
- seat, location
- situation, position
- squatting; encampment
- siege
- setting, letting
- (literary) seat, buttocks
Declension
- As substantive
Declension of suí
Fourth declension
Bare forms
| Forms with the definite article
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- As verbal noun
Declension of suí
Irregular
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
| Forms with the definite article
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Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
suí
- present subjunctive analytic of suigh
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| suí | shuí after an, tsuí | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “suí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “suiḋe”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 702
- Entries containing “suí” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “suí” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 44
Mandarin
Romanization
suí (sui2, Zhuyin ㄙㄨㄟˊ)
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 綏.
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 绝.
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 遀.
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 遂.
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 遹.
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 隋.
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 随.
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 隨.
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 绥.
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *suwits, from *su- (“good”) + *wid- (“knowing”),[1] the root ultimately being Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsui̯/
Noun
suí m (genitive süad, nominative plural suïd)
- sage, scholar
Inflection
| Masculine d-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | suí | suïdL, suí | suïd |
| Vocative | suí | suïdL, suí | suídea, suíthiu |
| Accusative | suïdN | suïdL, suí | suídea, suíthiu |
| Genitive | süad | süad | süadN |
| Dative | suïdL | suídib | suídib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
- Middle Irish: suí
- Irish: saoi
- Scottish Gaelic: saoidh (“worthy, righteous person”)
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| suí | ṡuí | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Stifter, David (2011), “Lack of Syncope and other nichtlautgesetzlich Vowel Developments in OIr. Consonant-Stem Nouns. Animacy Rearing its Head in Morphology?”, in Indogermanistik und Linguistikim Dialog Akten der XIII. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaftvom 21. bis 27. September 2008 in Salzburg, Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 556–565
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “suí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old Tupi
Postposition
suí
- from (provenience, cause)