seichithir

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sekʷetor, from Proto-Indo-European *sékʷetor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsʲexʲiθʲirʲ/

Verb

seichithir (verbal noun seichem)

  1. to follow, pursue
    • 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. 25c6
      Hóre ammi maicc laí et soilse, ná seichem nahísiu.
      Since we are children of day and light, let us not follow these things.

Inflection

Simple, class A II present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive, deponent
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative abs. sechitir
conj. ·sechetar, ·seichetar
rel.
imperfect indicative
preterite abs.
conj.
rel.
perfect deut. ro·sechestar
prot.
future abs. seichfid
conj.
rel.
conditional
present subjunctive abs.
conj. ·sechethar ·sechemmar
rel.
past subjunctive ·sechide ·sechitis
imperative seiched; num·sicheth (with infixed pronoun m-) sechem, seichem
verbal noun sechem, seichem
past participle
verbal of necessity sechidi

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of seichithir
radical lenition nasalization
seichithir ṡeichithir seichithir

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

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