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===Etymology===
===Etymology===
Possibly from {{m|cel-pro|*sī-nī-|t=to extend, stretch}}, as in "a stretch of time" developing to a meaning of "time" and "weather"; see {{m|cel-pro|*sīros|t=long}}. Similar semantic development can be found in {{cog|fr|temps|t=weather, time}}.
Suggested to be related to {{m|cel-pro|*sīniti|t=to stretch, extend}} (whence {{cog|mga|sínid}}) and {{m|cel-pro|*sīros|t=long}}, from {{m|ine-pro|*seh₁-|t=long, lasting|id=long}}, compare semantics of {{noncog|fr|temps|t=time; weather}}, from {{noncog|la|tempus|t=time; season}}, possibly from {{noncog|ine-pro|*ten-|*temp-|to stretch}}.<ref name="EDPC" />

===Noun===
===Noun===
{{cel-noun|f}}<ref name="Matasovic">{{R:cel:EDPC|head=*sīnā|pages=336}}</ref>
{{cel-noun|f}}<ref name="EDPC">{{R:cel:EDPC|head=*sīnā|pages=336}}</ref>


# [[weather]]
# [[weather]]
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====Inflection====
====Inflection====
{{cel-decl-noun-a-f|sīn}}
{{cel-decl-noun-a-f|sīn}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|cel-pro|*sīniti}}
* {{l|cel-pro|*sīros}}


====Descendants====
====Descendants====
* {{desc|cel-bry-pro|*hin}}
* Brythonic:
** {{desc|xbm|hynon}}, {{l|xbm|hinon|t=(nice) weather}}
** {{desc|xbm|hynon}}, {{l|xbm|hinon|t=(nice) weather}}
*** {{desc|br|hinon}}
*** {{desc|br|hinon}}

Revision as of 20:28, 28 November 2020

 This Proto-Celtic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Celtic

Etymology

Suggested to be related to *sīniti (“to stretch, extend”) (whence Middle Irish sínid) and *sīros (“long”), from *seh₁- (“long, lasting”), compare semantics of French temps (“time; weather”), from Latin tempus (“time; season”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *temp- (“to stretch”).[1]

Noun

*sīnā f[1]

  1. weather

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *sīnā *sīnai *sīnās
vocative *sīnā *sīnai *sīnās
accusative *sīnam *sīnai *sīnāms
genitive *sīnās *sīnous *sīnom
dative *sīnāi *sīnābom *sīnābos
locative *sīnai *? *?
instrumental *? *sīnābim *sīnābis

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *hin
    • Middle Breton: hynon, hinon (“(nice) weather”)
    • Middle Welsh: hin (“(bad) weather, air”)
      • Welsh: hin
        • → Breton: hin (“climate”)
  • Old Irish: sín (“bad weather, storm”)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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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