sinnach

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Old Irish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Celtic *senūnākos, from Proto-Celtic *senos (old one, n-stem noun) + adjectival suffix *-ākos (Old Irish -ach) (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “citation needed”)

Noun[edit]

sinnach m

  1. fox
    • Broccán's Hymn, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. 2, p. 342
      As·rir in sinnach n-allaid do ráith a aithig in trúaig: dochum feda con·selai cé do·sefnatar int slúaig.
      She gave the wild fox to her vassal, the wretched one; it went to the woods, although the host chased after it.
    • c. 775, “Táin Bó Fraích”, in Book of Leinster; republished as Ernst Windisch, editor, Táin bó Fraích, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1974, line 53:
      Do·sennat na secht n-aige do Ráith Chrúachan, ⁊ secht sinnchu ⁊ secht míla maige ⁊ secht turcu alta, conda·rubatar ind óic issind aurlaind in dúine.
      [The hounds] chase the seven deer to Ráith Chrúachan, in addition to seven foxes, seven hares, and seven wild boars, until the youths struck down [the hunted animals] in the lawn of the fort.

Inflection[edit]

Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative sinnach sinnachL sinnaigL
Vocative sinnaig sinnachL sinnchuH
Accusative sinnachN sinnachL sinnchuH
Genitive sinnaigL sinnach sinnachN
Dative sinnuchL sinnchaib sinnchaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

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Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Middle Irish: sinnach

Mutation[edit]

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
sinnach ṡinnach unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.