síans

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• séns

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sēnsus. Doublet of séis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sʲiːa̯ns]

Noun

síans m (genitive síansa, nominative plural síansae)

1. sense (meaning or reason)
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 14^d10

     Is samlid léicfimmi-ni doïbsom aisndís dint ṡéns ⁊ din mórálus, manip écóir frisin stoir ad·fíadam-ni.

     It is thus we shall leave to them the exposition of the sense and the morality, if it is not at variance with the history that we relate.

Declension

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	síans	síansL	síansaeH
Vocative	síans	síansL	síansu
Accusative	síansN	síansL	síansu
Genitive	síansoH, síansaH	síansoL, síansaL	síansaeN
Dative	síansL	síansaib	síansaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: sians

Mutation

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

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “síans, séns”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language