sídh

American  

[shee] / ʃi /

Or shee

noun

Irish Folklore.

• sídhe
  plural

1. a mound or hill in which fairies live.

2. a fairy.

3. sídhe, the race of fairies.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• sídhe
  plural

Etymology

Origin of sídh

1785–95; < Irish; MIr síd, síth fairy mound; cf. banshee

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

sídh sídhe

This word "sídh," which was applied—probably in the first place—to hollow mounds such as this, but which was also applied to the dwellers in them, gave the Tuatha De Danann their most popular name.

From Fians, Fairies and Picts by David MacRitchie

I felt a quick pain in my chest, imagining the sídhe sneaking up from their fairy ring and dragging the boy children down.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

Granda said there was a world just like ours on the bottom of the sea where the sídhe planted potatoes in the sand and drank tea from tiny shell cups.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

Or maybe I’d see a bean sídhe with her hair flowing, moaning because someone was going to die.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

He had said that one of the sídhe might live under her table.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

I knew the sídhe searched for boys to drag down into their rings.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff