siþ – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of siþ

Noun: siþ
Gender:

Nominative

Singularsīþ
Pluralsīþas

Genitive

Singularsīþes
Pluralsīþa

Dative

Singularsīþe
Pluralsīþum

Accusative

Singularsīþ
Pluralsīþas

Sample Sentences

  • Þȳs sīðe iċ seċġe him þæt iċ hine lufiġe. (This time I'm telling him I love him.)
  • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
  • Þā hīe sume sīðe druncene æt heora symble sǣton, þā ongunnon hīe trahtian hwæðer mā mǣrlīcra dǣda ġefremed hæfde, þē Philippus þē Alexander. (One time, when they were sitting around drunk at a banquet, they began to debate who had achieved more great feats, Philip or Alexander.)
  • Earge sweltaþ manigum sīðum ǣr heora dēaðum. (Cowards die many times before their deaths.)
  • late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Joshua 6:15 (On the seventh day, they circled the city seven times.)
  • Hēr wæs Willelm cyning tō midwintra on Normandiġ, and tō Ēastron hider tō lande cōm, and tō Pentecosten forman sīðe his hīred innan his nīewum ġebytlum æt Westmynstre hēold.
  • This year, King William spent Christmas in Normandy • came to England on Easter • at Pentecost, held court at his new palace in Westminster for the first time. [Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Manuscript E, year 1099]
  • Blickling Homilies, "The Third Sunday in Lent"
  • Eallum cristenum mannum is beboden þæt hīe ealne heora līchaman seofon sīðum ġebletsian mid Cristes rōde tācne: ǣrest on ǣrne morgen, ōðre sīðe on underntīd, þriddan sīðe on midne dæġ, fēorðan sīðe on nōntīd, fīftan sīðe on ǣfen, sixtan sīðe on niht ǣr hē reste, seofoþan sīðe on ūhtan. (All Christians are commanded to bless their entire body seven times with the sign of the cross: first early in the morning, the second time at nine o'clock, the third time at noon, the fourth time at three, the fifth time in the evening, the sixth time at night before bed, the seventh time before dawn.)
  • Six sīðum fēowertīene bēoþ fēower and hundeahtatiġ. (Six times fourteen is eighty-four.)
  • Ǣne seofon bēoþ seofon, tweowa seofon bēoþ fēowertīene, þreowa seofon bēoþ ān and twēntiġ, fēower sīðum seofon bēoþ eahta and twēntiġ. (One times seven is seven, two times seven is fourteen, three times seven is twenty-one, four times seven is twenty-eight.) [c. 1011, Byrhtferth, Manual:]
  • […]nis þæt ēower sīþ / ne ġemet mannes / nefne mīn anes.[…] ([…] That is not your journey / nor in the power of men / save for me, alone. […]) [Beowulf, lines 2532-2534]

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sinþ, Proto-Germanic *sinþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to head for, go”). Cognate with Old Frisian sīth, Old Saxon sīð, Old High German sind, Old Norse sinn, Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌸𐍃 (sinþs). See: Old Norse Nouns 'sinn', Gothic Nouns '𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌸𐍃'.

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