sinn

sinn (third-person singular simple present sinns, present participle sinning, simple past and past participle sinned)

1. Obsolete spelling of sin

• IPA^(key): [sɪnː]

  Rhymes: -ɪnː

sinn n (genitive singular sins, plural sinn)

1. time, times

   á sinni ― once (before); another time

   á hesum sinni ― this time, now

   ikki á hvørjum sinni ― not every time, seldom

   á síðsta sinni ― for the last time

   ikki enn á sinni ― not yet

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sinn

1. singular imperative of sinnen

• IPA^(key): /sɪnː/
• Rhymes: -ɪnː

From Old Norse sinn, from Proto-Germanic *sinþaz (“journey, way; time, occurrence”), from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to head for, go”). Cognate with Faroese sinn, Danish sinde, Swedish sin (in någonsin (“ever; at any time”)); more distantly Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌸𐍃 (sinþs), Old High German sind.

sinn n (genitive singular sinns, no plural)

1. time, as in occurrence

   Synonym: skipti

• senda

Old Norse sínn, sinn from Proto-Germanic *sīnaz.

sinn m (feminine sín, neuter sitt)

1. Third-person reflexive possessive determiner: his (own), her (own), its (own), their (own)
   • Genesis 5:3 (Icelandic, English)

     Adam lifði hundrað og þrjátíu ár. Þá gat hann son í líking sinni, eftir sinni mynd, og nefndi hann Set.

     When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.

   • 1928, Krummavísa (“Raven Song”, on the Icelandic Wikisource) by Jón Ásgeirsson

     Krummi krunkar úti,
     kallar á nafna sinn:
     „Ég fann höfuð af hrúti
     hrygg og gæruskinn.“
     Komdu nú og kroppaðu með mér,
     krummi nafni minn.

     Krummi croaks outside,
     calling his namesake:
     “I found the head of a ram,
     backbone and sheepskin.”
     Come now and peck with me,
     Krummi, my namesake.”

From Old Irish sinni.

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪn̠ʲ/, /ʃɪnʲ/

sinn (emphatic form sinne)

1. we, us (disjunctive)
2. (nonstandard) we (conjunctive)

• Not used as a conjunctive pronoun in the standard language; instead, synthetic verb forms or analytic forms with muid are used in the first person plural. Found with analytic verb forms in colloquial usage in some dialects. Use as a disjunctive pronoun is fully standard.

• sin (superseded)

From Middle High German sīn, from Old High German sīn / wesan (“to be”), from Proto-West Germanic *wesan, from Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to be”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be, exist”). Cognate with German sein, Dutch zijn.

The short vowel in the form sinn is probably due to merger with the Middle High German third-person plural sint. The -f in the imperative is of uncertain origin, perhaps from a gliding sound. The expected subjunctive is wéier, which is attested dialectally. The standard forms were formed anew from the preterite.

• IPA^(key): /zin/
• Rhymes: -in

sinn (third-person singular present ass, preterite war or wor, past participle gewiescht, past subjunctive wier or wär, auxiliary verb sinn)

1. to be

From Middle Low German sin; compare German Sinn, Sinne.

sinn n (definite singular sinnet, indefinite plural sinn, definite plural sinna or sinnene)

1. mind

• sinne

• “sinn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “sinn” in The Ordnett Dictionary

From Middle Low German sin.

sinn n (definite singular sinnet, indefinite plural sinn, definite plural sinna)

1. mind

• ro i sinnet
• sinnstilstand

• “sinn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *sinþaz. Cognate with Old English sīþ, Old Frisian sīth, Old Saxon sīth, Old High German sind, Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌸𐍃 (sinþs).

sinn

1. Alternative form of sínn (“one’s”)

sinn n

1. time, occurrence

   Synonym: sinni

• As this noun is most frequently used in the dative, it is often impossible to tell apart from the synonymous sinni.

• “sinn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Old Irish sinni. Cognates include Irish sinn and Manx shin.

• IPA^(key): /ʃiɲ/

sinn (emphatic sinne)

1. first-person plural pronoun; we, us

   Thèid sinn dhan bhanca a-màireach; chì sibh sinn ann.

   We’ll go to the bank tomorrow; you'll see us there.