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

n9	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	sinn	sinnið	sinn	sinnini
Accusative	sinn	sinnið	sinn	sinnini
Dative	sinni	sinninum	sinnum	sinnunum
Genitive	sins	sinsins	sinna	sinnanna

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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.”

Possessive pronouns (eignarfornöfn)
	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	sinn	sín	sitt		sínir	sínar	sín
accusative	sinn	sína	sitt		sína	sínar	sín
dative	sínum	sinni	sínu		sínum	sínum	sínum
genitive	síns	sinnar	síns		sinna	sinna	sinna

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.