# sean
## English
### Noun

sean (plural seans)
* Dated form of seine.

### Verb

sean (third-person singular simple present seans, present participle seaning, simple past and past participle seaned)
* Dated form of seine.
** 1874, Edmund William Hunt Holdsworth, Deep-sea fishing and fishing boats, page 157:Seaning is conducted on a large scale at St. Ives for the capture of pilchards […]

### References

* “sean”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* ENSA, Esan, NAEs, NESA, Nase, Sena, eans, nase, sane

## Gagauz
### Pronoun

sean (accusative seni, plural siz)
* Obsolete spelling of sän.

### Further reading

* Ciachir, Mihail (1938) “sean”, in Dicționar gagauzo (tiurco)–român pentru gagauzii din Basarabia (in Romanian), Chișinău, page 85

## Irish
### Etymology

* PIE word
* *sénos
From Old Irish sen (compare Manx shenn), from Proto-Celtic *senos (compare Welsh hen), from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”) (compare Latin senior/senex, Lithuanian sẽnas).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃan̪ˠ/, /ʃanˠ/
* (Cois Fharraige) IPA: /ʃæːn̪ˠ/

### Adjective

sean (comparative sine) (used predicatively)
* old

#### Usage notes

* When used attributively, the prefix sean- is used instead.

### Noun

sean m (genitive singular sean, nominative plural seana)
* senior, ancestor
* oldness; old thing

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
sean
seana
vocative
a shean
a sheana
genitive
sean
sean
dative
sean
seana
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an sean
na seana
genitive
an tsean
na sean
dative
leis an tsean don tsean
leis na seana :

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 sen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 104, page 57
* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 249, page 90

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sean”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Scottish Gaelic
### Alternative forms

* seann

### Etymology

From Old Irish sen (compare Manx shenn), from Proto-Celtic *senos (compare Welsh hen), from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”) (compare Latin senior/senex, Lithuanian sẽnas).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃɛn/

### Adjective

sean (comparative sine)
* old

#### Derived terms

* an Seann Tiomnadh (“Old Testament”)
* o shean (“long ago”)
* seana-ghille (“bachelor”)
* seana-mhaighdeann (“spinster”)
* seanair (“grandfather”)
* seanfhacal (“proverb”)
* seanmhair (“grandmother”)
* seann-nòs (“old custom”)
* seann-nòsach (“traditional; old-fashioned”)
* seann-phàrant (“grandparent”)

### Further reading

* Edward Dwelly (1911) “sean”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 sen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsean/ [ˈse.ãn]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -ean
* Syllabification: se‧an

### Verb

sean
* inflection of ser:
** third-person plural present subjunctive
** third-person plural imperative

## Volapük
### Noun

sean (nominative plural seans)
* ocean (large body of water)

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only