síans
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- séns
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin sēnsus. Doublet of séis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [sʲiːa̯ns]
Noun
síans m (genitive síansa, nominative plural síansae)
- sense (meaning or reason)
- 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. 14d10
- Is samlid léicfimmi-ni doïbsom aisndís dint ṡéns ⁊ din mórálus, manip écóir frisin stoir ad·fíadam-ni.
- It is thus we shall leave to them the exposition of the sense and the morality, if it is not at variance with the history that we relate.
- 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. 14d10
Declension
| Masculine u-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | síans | síansL | síansaeH |
| Vocative | síans | síansL | síansu |
| Accusative | síansN | síansL | síansu |
| Genitive | síansoH, síansaH | síansoL, síansaL | síansaeN |
| Dative | síansL | síansaib | síansaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
- Irish: sians
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| síans | ṡíans | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “síans, séns”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language