téit

See also: teit and -teit

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʲeːdʲ/

Etymology 1

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The present stem is from Proto-Celtic *tēgeti, from Proto-Indo-European *stéygʰeti. The origin of the anomalous third-person singular téit is unclear, and multiple explanations exist. The regular form would be *téigid.

The preterite active stem is from Proto-Celtic *ludet, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ludʰét (“to arrive”) (compare Sanskrit अरुधत् (arudhát), Ancient Greek ἦλθον (êlthon), ἤλυθον (ḗluthon), Tocharian A läc. The preterite passive stem is from Proto-Celtic *itos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁itós, from *h₁ey- (“to go”).

The future stem is from Proto-Celtic *rigāti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁r̥gʰ-, zero grade of *h₁ergʰ- (“to go, move”) (compare Ancient Greek ἔρχομαι (érkhomai)). The second-person imperatives may be from the full grade of the same root, or they may be from *exs- (“out”) + *regeti (“to stretch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-.

The perfective stem is from dí- +‎ com- +‎ feidid (“to lead”), from Proto-Celtic *wedeti, from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ-.

Verb

téit (conjunct ·tét, verbal noun techt or dul)

1. to go, to proceed
   • 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. 15^b28

     A mbás tíagme-ni do·áirci bethid dúibsi .i. is ar bethid dúibsi tíagmi-ni bás.

     The death to which we go causes life to you pl, i.e. it is for the sake of life to you that we go to death.

2. to go, to depart, to leave

Inflection

Simple, class B I present, suffixless preterite, a future, s subjunctive, irregular

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Abs.	tíagu	té(i)gi	téit	tíagm(a)i		tíagait	tíagair	tíagtair
	Conj.	·tíag	·téig	·tét	·tíagam	·téigid, ·téit	·tíagat	·tíagar	·tíagtar
	Rel.			té(i)te	tíagm(a)e		tíagtae	tíagar
Imperfect indicative		·téginn		·té(i)ged	·téigmis		·téigtis	·téigthe
Preterite	Abs.	lod	lod	luid	lodmar		lodatar, lota(i)r	ethae
	Conj.	·lod, ·lud	·lod	·luid	·lodmar		·lotar	·eth
	Rel.			luide
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Abs.	rega	regae	regaid	regmai, rigmi	regthae	regait	regthair, rigthir
	Conj.	·reg, ·rig	·regae	·rega, ·riga	·regam	·regaid	·regat	·regthar
	Rel.			regas, rigas	ragmae		regtae	regthar
Conditional		·regainn	·regtha	·regad, ·rigad	·regmais	·regthae	·regtais
Present subjunctive	Abs.	tíasu	té(i)si	téis	tíasmai	tíastae	tíasait	tíasair
	Conj.	·tías	·téis	·té(i)	·tíasam	·té(i)sid	·tíasat	·tías(t)ar
	Rel.			tías	tíasmae		tíastae	tías(t)ar
Past subjunctive		·téisinn	·tíasta	·téised	·tíasmais	·tíastae	·tíastais	tíastae	·tíastais
Imperative		tíach, tíag	airg, eirg	tét	tíagam	eircid, e(i)rgid	tíagat	tíagar
Verbal noun		techt, dul
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Perfective forms based on do·cuat

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.			do·cuat
	Prot.	·digthim		·dichet		·digthid
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.			·digthed
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.	do·coad, do·cood		do·coïd	do·commar		do·cotar	do·coas
	Prot.	·dechud	·dechod, ·dechud	·dechuid	·dechummar		·dechutar	·dechas
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.		do·cois	do·coí			do·coísat
	Prot.	·dechus, ·dichius	·dechais, ·dichis	·dich, ·decha	·dechsam	·dechsaid, ·dichsid	·dechsat, ·dichset
Past subjunctive	Deut.			do·coísed			do·coístis
	Prot.	·dechsainn		·dechsad, ·dichsed			·dechsaitis, ·dichsitis
Imperative
Verbal noun
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• do·tét
• imm·téit

 

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “téit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

téit

1. inflection of tét:
   1. accusative/dative singular
   2. nominative/vocative/accusative dual

Mutation

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