sín

• ߛߌ߲ (nko)

sín

1. breast

• ߛߌ߲߫ (nko)

sín

1. to face, be opposite

• IPA^(key): [sʊin]

sín

1. reflexive pronoun, genitive third-person of seg
   • hann sendi eitt bræv til sín sjálvs

     he sent a letter to himself

• Höskuldur Thráinsson, Hjalmar P. Petersen, Jógvan í Lon Jacobsen, Zakaris Svabo Hansen: Faroese : An Overview and Reference Grammar. Tórshavn: Føroya Fróðskaparfelag, 2004 (p. 119 f., 325 ff.)

Old Norse sínn, from Proto-Germanic *sīnaz.

sín

1. his, her, its, their; the third person possessive pronoun

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃiːn]
• Hyphenation: sín
• Rhymes: -iːn

From German Schiene (“rail”).

sín (plural sínek)

1. rail

sí +‎ -n

sín

1. superessive singular of sí

• sín in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

sín

1. genitive of sig

sín

1. inflection of sinn:
   1. feminine nominative singular
   2. neuter nominative plural
   3. neuter accusative plural

• IPA^(key): /ʃiːnʲ/

From Middle Irish sínid, from Proto-Celtic *sīnīti, from the same root as *sīros (“long”) (compare Old Irish sír, Welsh hir), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“late, long”) (compare Sanskrit साय (sāyá, “evening”), Latin sērus (“late”), Gothic 𐍃𐌴𐌹𐌸𐌿𐍃 (seiþus, “late”).

sín (present analytic síneann, future analytic sínfidh, verbal noun síneadh, past participle sínte)

1. to stretch, extend
2. to pass (transfer from one person to another, hand over)
3. to lengthen

From Old French signe, seing (“sign; mark; signature”), from Latin signum (“a mark; sign; token”). Doublet of séan.

sín f (genitive singular síne, nominative plural síneacha)

1. sign

   Synonym: comhartha

• sínigh (“to sign”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sín f

1. (archaic, dialectal) dative singular of síon

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 337
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 sínid (‘stretch out, extend’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “sínim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 641
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sín”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 67

From Proto-Celtic *sīnā (“weather”). Cognate with Welsh hin and Breton hinon (“good weather”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʲiːn/ (nominative singular and genitive plural)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsʲiːnʲ/ (accusative and dative singular)

sín f (genitive síne, nominative plural sína)

1. weather
   • c. 850 Glosses on the Carlsruhe Beda, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 10–30, Bcr. 33^b14

     .i. conscuchud suas ar ómun inna sín⁠.

     i.e. moving upwards for fear of the storms.

   • Tecosca Cormaic, published in Tecosca Cormaic. The Instructions of King Cormaic Mac Airt (1909, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, page 36, §17, line 8

     Dech do sínaib céo […]

     The best of weathers is mist […]

Often, but not always, with negative connotations.

• Middle Irish: sín
  • Irish: síon
  • Scottish Gaelic: sian

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 sín”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

sín

1. inflection of sínn:
   1. feminine nominative singular
   2. neuter nominative/accusative plural

sín

1. genitive of sik