sní

See also: sni, śni, -sni, and .sni

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɲiː]

Etymology 1

Verb

sní

1. third-person singular present indicative of sníst
2. (colloquial) third-person plural present indicative of sníst

   Synonym: snědí

Etymology 2

Verb

sní

1. third-person singular/plural present indicative of snít

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃn̠ʲiː]

Noun

sní f (genitive singular sní)

1. verbal noun of snigh

Declension

Declension of sní (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative sní vocative a shní genitive sní dative sní forms with the definite article case singular nominative an tsní genitive na sní dative leis an tsní don tsní

Verb

sní

1. present subjunctive analytic of snigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of sní

radical	lenition	eclipsis
sní	shní after an, tsní	not applicable

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

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *snīs (compare Welsh ni), from Proto-Indo-European *nos, compare Latin nōs, Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍃 (uns).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʲn͈ʲiː/

Pronoun

sní (genitive nathar)

1. we
   • 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. 19^a15

     o sní credentes in Christo

     even we, believing in Christ

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 124^b3

     Ní sní cetid·deirgni ⁊ ní sní dud·rigni nammá.

     We have not done it first, and we have not done it alone.

Related terms

• nini (emphatic)
• sinni (emphatic)
• sisni (emphatic)
• snisni (emphatic)

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mé”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language