sídh
or shee
[shee]
- a mound or hill in which fairies live.
- a fairy.
- sídhe, the race of fairies.
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Origin of sídh
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Historical Examples
To return, however, to the Sidhe people of the British Islands.
The Testimony of TraditionDavid MacRitchie
The Sidhe have been, like the Angels, from before the making of the earth.
These are the Sidhe, or people of the hill, the noblest among these mysterious folk.
KillarneyMary Gorges
Sidhe is also Gaelic for wind, and certainly the Sidhe have much to do with the wind.
The Wind Among the ReedsWilliam Butler Yeats
I asked a countryman who was with me what hill that was, and he told me it was Cruachmaa of the Sidhe.
Ideas of Good and EvilWilliam Butler Yeats
sidhe
- the inhabitants of fairyland; fairies
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Word Origin
C18: from Irish Gaelic aos sídhe people of the fairy mound; compare banshee
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Word Origin and History for sidhe
Sidhe
"the hills of the fairies," 1793; but in Yeats, "the fairie folk" (1899), elipsis of Irish (aos) sidhe "people of the faerie mound" (cf. second element in banshee).
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