sídh
or shee
[shee]
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noun, plural sídhe [shee] /ʃi/. Irish Folklore.
a mound or hill in which fairies live.
a fairy.
sídhe, the race of fairies.
Origin of sídh
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Historical Examples of sidhe
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
pl n the sidhe
Word Origin for sidhe
C18: from Irish Gaelic aos sídhe people of the fairy mound; compare banshee
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