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[EC foirneadh], tr. & intr. I stretch, s. m’fholt 11 17; s. cruaidh 65 19; s. brat ar 99 7; s. láimh i gcoinne 63 4; s. láimh re 84 32; s. (I lengthen out) doilghe 95 14, 100 19; s. (I put off, suspend payment of, debt) cóir 59 8, 64 37, 95 24; s. re, le,I rival 15 30; sine agus fiadh Cuinn le chéile, thy land and C.’s land have the same bounds, 15 14; do shín, was put off 95 9; ar shín do chúisibh, the matters left unsettled 7 7; sínim (I advance) a dtuaidh 15 33; s. seach, I pass 1 2; s. ó. I escape clutch of 31 32 ;aicme ór shínis, thy ancestors 19 9; vn. -eadh; cuirim a sh., 71 8 n.; téid ag s. 67 8; tig s. ar 69 7 n; cuirim s. ar 87 4.

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.

I stretch, lie. suas do síneadh, was magnified (lit. stretched upwards), 1016; sínidh...a n-ágh, presses (lit. stretches) into battle, 1752; sínidh...dá ghuin, he strives (lit. stretches) to slay him, 1756. With re, I lie with, metaphorically 'I vie with', 'rival'; nuachar...ré síni-si, a spouse with whom you lie, 130; do shín re hairdteist in taobha tuaidh, he rivalled the renown of the (princes of the) north, 1737; other exx. 756, 926.  With targo síne tairse, may you conquer it, 1810.

Poems on the O'Reillys. Editor: James Carney.

s. ó 49 n; nír shín a gclú re chéile were unequal 2126; sínim éill 4241.

The Book of O'Hara: Leabhar Í Eadhra. Editor: Lambert McKenna S.J.