seinnid

== Irish == === Verb === seinnid (Munster, otherwise archaic) third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of seinn === Mutation === == Old Irish == === Etymology === From a conflation of two verbs due to the Irish merger of word-initial *sw- and *s-. The meaning "to play a musical instrument" derives from Proto-Celtic *swannati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂-. The conjugation is derived entirely from *swannati; the labial consonants in the middle of the reduplicated preterite and future stems are regular, as medial -sw- generally lenited into them. The meaning "to strike" is from Proto-Celtic *sannati, from Proto-Indo-European *senh₂- (“to reach, attain”). The expected preterite reduplication, *siann- ← *se-sann-, was supplanted by that of *swannati. However, the original formation survives in the fossilized defective verb do·coissin (“to exist”) (← dī-kom-sesanne). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsʲe.n̠ʲəðʲ/ (Blasse) [ˈsʲe.n̠ʲɪðʲ] (Griffith) [ˈsʲe.n̠ʲɨðʲ] === Verb === seinnid (conjunct ·seinn, verbal noun seinm) to play (a musical instrument) to strike ==== Inflection ==== ==== Derived terms ==== do·seinn ==== Descendants ==== Irish: seinn Scottish Gaelic: seinn === References === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 seinnid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 seinnid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language