síi

See also: sii, sīi, and si'i

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

  1. you (nominative plural), ye
    • 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

Synonyms

  • sibsi (emphatic)
  • sissi (emphatic)

References

  • “síi” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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