sídh
Americannoun
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sídhe
plural
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a mound or hill in which fairies live.
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a fairy.
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sídhe, the race of fairies.
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of sídh
1785–95; < Irish; MIr síd, síth fairy mound; cf. banshee
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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.
From Fians, Fairies and Picts by David MacRitchie
I wouldn’t have to see the sídhe 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
He had said that one of the sídhe might live under her table.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
“We won’t let the sídhe know we have a boy instead of a girl.”
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
If it had been the sídhe with their long fingers, they could have reached across the fields and touched and turned everything black.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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