Críst

See also: Crist

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin Christus, from Ancient Greek Χριστός (Khristós), proper noun use of χριστός (khristós, “anointed”), in translation of Biblical Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (māšīaḥ, “anointed”)).

Pronunciation

• (nominative, accusative, and dative): IPA^(key): /kʲrʲiːst/
• (genitive and vocative): IPA^(key): /kʲrʲiːsʲtʲ/

Proper noun

Críst m

1. Christ
   • 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. 14^d26

     Is i persin Críst da·gníu-sa sin.

     It is in the person of Christ that I do that.

   • 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. 19^c20

     Má nudub·feil i n‑ellug coirp Críst, adib cland Abrache amal ṡodin, et it sib ata chomarpi Abracham.

     If you pl are in the union of the body of Christ, you are Abraham’s children in that case, and it is you who are Abraham’s heirs.

Derived terms

• Crístaide (“Christian”)

Descendants

• Irish: Críost
• Manx: Creest
• Scottish Gaelic: Crìosd

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
Críst	Chríst	Críst pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “Críst”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language