creitid

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kreddīti, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱred-dʰédʰoh₁ti, but the stem *kreddī- has been generalised from the aorist *ḱred-dʰéh₁t.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkʲrʲedʲiðʲ]

Verb

creitid (conjunct ·creti, verbal noun cre(i)tem)

  1. to believe
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13b19
      Is súaichnid, manid·chretid esséirge Críst et mortuorum, níb·noíbfea for n-ires in chruth sin et níb·scara fri bar pecthu.
      It is obvious, unless you pl believe in the resurrection of Christ and the dead, your faith will not sanctify you in that way and does not separate you from your sins.

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:creitid.

Inflection

Simple, class A II present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative abs.
conj. ·cretim ·creti ·cretid, ·creitid; non·chretid (with prefix no- and infixed pronoun n(d)-) cretet
rel. cretes, creites, crettes cretme crete, cretite
imperfect indicative ·crete, ·crette
preterite abs. cretsit
conj. ·cretus ·cretis ·creti, ·cretti ·cretsid, ·creitsid ·cretset, ·creitset
rel.
perfect deut. ro·cretus ro·cretis ro·creti, ro·cretti ro·cretsid, ro·creitsid ro·cretset, ro·creitset
prot. ·rochret, ·rochreit
future abs. cretfed (for expected *cretfid)
conj. ·cretfea ·creitfet ·creitfider
rel. cretfes, creitfes, cretfess, creitfess cretfite, creitfite
conditional ·creitfed
present subjunctive abs.
conj. ro·cretea (deuterotonic ro-form); ·rrochraitea (prototonic ro-form) ro·cretem (deuterotonic ro-form) ·cretid
rel.
past subjunctive ·rochrete, ·ruchrete (prototonic ro-form) ·cretitis ·crete, ·crette
imperative
verbal noun cretem, creitem
past participle
verbal of necessity creti

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: creid
  • Manx: creid, cred
  • Scottish Gaelic: creid

Mutation

Mutation of creitid
radical lenition nasalization
creitid chreitid creitid
pronounced with /ɡʲ-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) “Urinselkelt. *-dī- 'setzen'”, in Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, page 418

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