suí

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sui"

Catalan

Pronunciation

Verb

suí

  1. first-person singular preterite indicative form of suar

Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sˠiː/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish suide (compare Welsh sedd), from Proto-Celtic *sodyom, from Proto-Indo-European *sodyom (compare Latin solium (“seat, chair”), from *sed-.

Alternative forms

Noun

suí m (genitive singular as substantive suí, genitive as verbal noun suite, nominative plural suíonna)

  1. verbal noun of suigh
    Tá mé i mo shuí. ― I am sitting; I am up (i.e. out of bed).
  2. sitting position
  3. state of being arisen
  4. state of being roused
  5. session
  6. seat, location
  7. situation, position
  8. squatting; encampment
  9. siege
  10. setting, letting
  11. (literary) seat, buttocks
Declension
As substantive
Declension of suí

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative suí suíonna
Vocative a shuí a shuíonna
Genitive suí suíonna
Dative suí suíonna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an suí na suíonna
Genitive an tsuí na suíonna
Dative leis an suí

don suí

 leis na suíonna
As verbal noun
Declension of suí

Irregular

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative suí
Vocative a shuí
Genitive suite
Dative suí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an suí
Genitive an tsuite
Dative leis an suí

don suí

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

suí

  1. present subjunctive analytic of suigh

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
suí shuí
after an, tsuí		 not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Mandarin

Romanization

suí (sui2, Zhuyin ㄙㄨㄟˊ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 綏／绥
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 绝
  3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 遀
  4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 遂
  5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 遹
  6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 隋
  7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 随
  8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 隨／随
  9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 绥

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *suwits, from *su- (“good”) +‎ *wid- (“knowing”),[1] the root ultimately being Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsui̯/

Noun

suí m (genitive süad, nominative plural suïd)

  1. sage, scholar

Inflection
Masculine d-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative suí suïdL, suí suïd
Vocative suí suïdL, suí suídea, suíthiu
Accusative suïdN suïdL, suí suídea, suíthiu
Genitive süad süad süadN
Dative suïdL suídib suídib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants
  • Middle Irish: suí
    • Irish: saoi
    • Scottish Gaelic: saoidh (“worthy, righteous person”)

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
suí ṡuí unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Stifter, David (2011), “Lack of Syncope and other nichtlautgesetzlich Vowel Developments in OIr. Consonant-Stem Nouns. Animacy Rearing its Head in Morphology?”, in Indogermanistik und Linguistikim Dialog Akten der XIII. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaftvom 21. bis 27. September 2008 in Salzburg, Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 556–565

Further reading

Old Tupi

Postposition

suí

  1. from (provenience, cause)
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