sídh

American  

[shee] / ʃi /

Or shee

noun

Irish Folklore.

plural

sídhe

1. a mound or hill in which fairies live.

2. a fairy.

3. sídhe, the race of fairies.

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Etymology

Origin of sídh

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

Example Sentences

According to Mr. Borlase, ‘it was by passing under the waters of a well that the Sidh, that is, the abode of the spirits called Sidhe, in the tumulus or natural hill, as the case might be, was reached.’

From Project Gutenberg

“Fantastical spirits,” he writes, “are by the Irish called men of the Sidh, because they are seen, as it were, to come out of the beautiful hills to infest men, and hence the vulgar belief that they reside in certain subterranean habitations; and sometimes the hills themselves are called by the Irish Sidhe or Siodha.”

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Sindhu probably meant originally the divider, keeper, and defender, from sidh, to keep off.

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The principal king of this line was Sidh Rāj Solankhi, who is well known to tradition.

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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.

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