Shinna

Yola

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish Sionainn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪnə/

Proper noun

Shinna

1. Shannon
   • OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, line 26.

     “The principal of these are named Carrick-a-Shinna, Carrick-a-Dee, and Carrick-a-Foyle, and are respectively 556, 776, and 687 feet above the level of the sea.”

   Synonym: Shanaan

Derived terms

• Carrick-a-Shinna

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 2