síi

See also: sii, sīi, and si'i

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• sí

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 (genitive sethar)

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. 25^a3

     tacco is síi

     I declare it is you

   Synonym: sib

Related terms

• sibsi (emphatic)
• sissi (emphatic)

References

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