sé

Definitions (by source)

Show all

  1. pron. 3 sg. m.; used as subj. of vb., 5.5, etc.; with copula, is sé sin 49.5
  2. ‘six’ 16.5, 16.12

Aibidil Gaoidheilge & Caiticiosma: Seaán Ó Cearnaigh's Irish primer of religion, published in 1571. Editor: Brian Ó Cuív.

  1. numer. sé is seachtmhoghad bliadhan 91 10; sé mhíle 78 26; sé dhíne, fréamha, líne, shochuidhe, teaghlaighe, etc. 60 29 n.
  2. go sé 78 25, PH 589, LCAB i 63.

Aithdioghluim Dána: A Miscellany of Irish Bardic Poetry, Historical and Religious, including the Historical Poems of the Duanaire in the Yellow Book of Lecan. Vol II, Translations, Notes, Vocabulary. Editor: Lambert McKenna S.J.

pers. pron. 2 sm. he; (i) disjunctive 53, 555, 1002, 1186; (ii) conjunctive 48.

Duanaire Mhéig Uidhir: The poembook of Cú Chonnacht Mág Uidhir, Lord of Fermanagh 1566-1589. Editor: David Greene. Translator: David Greene.

3-pers. pron. 1. m. sé, f. sí, pl. siad, used as subj. of verb (except the copula); rare in this text, as the verbal form is genly. sufficient, 23, 4000, 539, etc.;--with emph. pron. seisean, 4629; siad-san, 4945. 2. m. é, f. í, pl. iad, (a) as subj. or pred. of copula, 9, 55, 92, etc.; (b) subj. of pass. vbs., 64, 646 (c) obj. of trans. vbs., 200, 821, 9070; (d) abs. (esp. with agus), 55, 110, 2271;--so with ioná, 680, 1100; before verbal nouns sometimes left undeclined, syntatically=gen. ar tí é féin do shlogadh, 579 (=ar tí a shloigthe féin);--with emph. pron. eisean, 5134. 3. the old neut. eadh is found only as pred. with copula, 102, 133; esp. in phr. like, is eadh do-rónsad, 147; cf. 153, 312, etc.; [but, is é chialluighid, 67; cf. an é nach, ‘nonne,’ 7110]

Trí Bior-Ghaoithe an Bháis: The Three Shafts of Death. Author: Geoffrey Keating. Editor: Osborn Bergin.