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Uncertain; compare shinney, shinty. Tentatively suggested to be a compound of the Irish words seinn (“play, sing”) and tí (“house”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Uncertain; compare shinney, shinty. Tentatively suggested to be a compound of the Irish words seinn (“play, sing”) and tí (“house”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.