remitét

Old Irish

Etymology

From rem- (“before, fore-, pre-”) +‎ téit (“to go”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [r͈ʲeβ̃ʲiˈtʲeːd]

Verb

remi·tét (verbal noun remthechtas)

1. to go before, precede
   • 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. 5^a30

     .i. massu rath-som, ní remdechutar gníma.

     i.e. if it is grace, works have not preceded [it].

   • 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. 5^a32

     .i. diand·remthiasat gníma, sed debitum.

     i.e. [but] if works go before it, [it is] a debt. [Compare with Wb. 5a30 for context.]

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 17^b10

     .i. remi·tét .c. in .t

     i.e. [when] C precedes the T

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 197^b5

     Derbaid cenél dano i suidib a n-í remita·tét.

     What precedes them, then, certifies the gender in them.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, suffixless preterite, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			remi·tét
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.			reme·lluid (nasalizing relative)
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.						·remdechutar
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.						·remthiasat
Past subjunctive	Deut.			remi·téised
	Prot.						·remthíastais
Imperative
Verbal noun		remthechtas
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
remi·tét	remi·thét	remi·tét pronounced with /-d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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