Sidhe

Sidhe
Sidhe "the hills of the fairies," 1793; but in Yeats, "the fairie folk" (1899), elipsis of Ir. (aos) sidhe "people of the faerie mound" (Cf. second element in BANSHEE (Cf. banshee)).

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