sídh

or shee

[ shee ]

noun

, Irish Folklore.

, plural sídhe [shee].

1. a mound or hill in which fairies live.
2. a fairy.
3. sídhe, the race of fairies.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sídh¹

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

Example Sentences

Throughout the "Colloquy of the Ancients," Finn and the Fianna frequently enter the green sidh—the mound where the Tuatha de Danann dwell, and from which the fairies derive their name "fir-sidh."

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The rath and souterrain are undoubtedly the work of primitive man, yet here we have the Sidh, inhabited by the fairy and the Tuatha de Danann.

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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.’

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“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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