fristét

Old Irish

Etymology

From frith- (“towards, against”) +‎ téit (“to go”). In the glosses at least, it seems to serve as a calque of Latin obeō (“to go towards”).

Verb

fris·tét (verbal noun fritecht)

1. to go towards
2. to meet an obligation

Conjugation

Complex, class B I present, s subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.			fris·téit				fritum·thíagar (with infixed pronoun tum-)
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.	fris·téissin (switched to fris·taíssin by the glossator)
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun		fritecht
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of fris·tét

radical	lenition	nasalization
fris·tét	fris·tét	fris·tét pronounced with /d̪̠ʲ-/

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

Further reading

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