remitét

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Old Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Verb[edit]

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. 5a30
      .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. 5a32
      .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. 17b10
      .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. 197b5
      Derbaid cenél dano i suidib a n-í remita·tét.
      What precedes them, then, certifies the gender in them.

Inflection[edit]

Mutation[edit]

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.

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