creitid

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Old Irish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

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[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

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

Mutation[edit]

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

References[edit]

  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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