seinnid
Irish
Verb
seinnid
Mutation
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Old Irish
Etymology
From a conflation of two verbs due to the Irish merger of word-initial *sw- and *s-.
- The meaning "to play a musical instrument" derives from Proto-Celtic *swannati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂-. The conjugation is derived entirely from *swannati; the labial consonants in the middle of the reduplicated preterite and future stems are regular, as medial -sw- generally lenited into them.
- The meaning "to strike" is from Proto-Celtic *sannati, from Proto-Indo-European *senh₂- (“to reach, attain”). The expected preterite reduplication, *siann- ← *se-sann-, was supplanted by that of *swannati. However, the original formation survives in the fossilized defective verb do·coissin (“to exist”) (← dī-kom-sesanne).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sʲen͈ʲəðʲ/, [sʲen͈ʲiðʲ]
Inflection
Simple, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, s future, s subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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| Present indicative | Abs. | sennait | |||||||
| Conj. | ·seinn | ||||||||
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| Imperfect indicative | ·senned | ·sendítis | |||||||
| Preterite | Abs. | sephainn | |||||||
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| Perfect | Deut. | ro·sephaind | |||||||
| Prot. | ·ruiphnetar | ||||||||
| Future | Abs. | sibsa | sifais | ||||||
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| Present subjunctive | Abs. | ||||||||
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| Verbal noun | seinm | ||||||||
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Derived terms
References
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 seinnid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 seinnid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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