síi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sii"

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *swīs (compare Welsh chwi), from Proto-Indo-European *wos (compare Latin vōs, Old Church Slavonic вꙑ (vy)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sʲiː/

Pronoun

síi (genitive sethar)

  1. you (nominative plural), ye
    Synonym: sib
    • 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. 25a3
      tacco is síi
      I declare it is you

References

Phalura

Etymology

From Sanskrit स्वपति (svapati, sleeps).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /síi/

Verb

síi (intransitive, Perso-Arabic spelling سی)

  1. to sleep

Inflection

T (Prs): suáanu, (Pfv): sútu, (Cv): seé, (Imp): so

References

  • Liljegren, Henrik, Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7), Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “síi”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
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