Eastern Maninkakan

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Noun

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sín

  1. breast

Alternative scripts

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Verb

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sín

  1. to face, be opposite

Faroese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Pronoun

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sín

  1. reflexive pronoun, genitive third-person of seg
Declension
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Reflexive pronouns - Afturbent fornavn
Singular (eintal), Plural (fleirtal) 3. m, f, n
Nominative (hvørfall)
Accusative (hvønnfall) seg
Dative (hvørjumfall) sær
Genitive (hvørsfall) sín
References
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  • 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.)

Etymology 2

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Old Norse sínn, from Proto-Germanic *sīnaz.

Pronoun

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sín

  1. his, her, its, their; the third person possessive pronoun
Declension
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Possessive pronoun - ognarfornavn
Singular (eintal) m f n
Nominative (hvørfall) sín sín sítt
Accusative (hvønnfall) sína
Dative (hvørjumfall) sínum síni / sínari sínum
Genitive (hvørsfall) (síns) (sínar) (síns)
Plural (fleirtal) m f n
Nominative (hvørfall) sínir sínar síni
Accusative (hvønnfall) sínar
Dative (hvørjumfall) sínum
Genitive (hvørsfall) (sína)

Hungarian

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sín

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From German Schiene (rail).

Noun

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sín (plural sínek)

  1. rail
Declension
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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative sín sínek
accusative sínt síneket
dative sínnek síneknek
instrumental sínnel sínekkel
causal-final sínért sínekért
translative sínné sínekké
terminative sínig sínekig
essive-formal sínként sínekként
essive-modal
inessive sínben sínekben
superessive sínen síneken
adessive sínnél síneknél
illative sínbe sínekbe
sublative sínre sínekre
allative sínhez sínekhez
elative sínből sínekből
delative sínről sínekről
ablative síntől sínektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
síné síneké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
sínéi sínekéi
Possessive forms of sín
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. sínem sínjeim
2nd person sing. síned sínjeid
3rd person sing. sínje sínjei
1st person plural sínünk sínjeink
2nd person plural sínetek sínjeitek
3rd person plural sínjük sínjeik

Etymology 2

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+‎ -n

Noun

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sín

  1. superessive singular of

Further reading

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  • 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

Icelandic

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Etymology 1

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Pronoun

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sín

  1. genitive of sig
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Determiner

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sín

  1. inflection of sinn (his/her(s)/its):
    1. feminine nominative singular
    2. neuter nominative plural
    3. neuter accusative plural

Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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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).

Verb

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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
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

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sín f (genitive singular síne, nominative plural síneacha)

  1. sign
    Synonym: comhartha
Declension
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Declension of sín (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative sín síneacha
vocative a shín a shíneacha
genitive síne síneacha
dative sín síneacha
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an tsín na síneacha
genitive na síne na síneacha
dative leis an tsín
don tsín
leis na síneacha
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Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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sín f

  1. (archaic, dialectal) dative singular of síon

Mutation

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Mutated forms of sín
radical lenition eclipsis
sín shín
after an, tsín
not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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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. 33b14
      .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 []

Usage notes

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Often, but not always, with negative connotations.

Inflection

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Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative sínL sínL sínaH
Vocative sínL sínL sínaH
Accusative sínN sínL sínaH
Genitive síneH sínL sínN
Dative sínL sínaib sínaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: sín

Mutation

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Mutation of sín
radical lenition nasalization
sín ṡín unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*sīnā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 336

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Old Norse

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Determiner

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sín

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

Pronoun

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sín

  1. genitive of sik
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