creitid
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- cretid
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *kreddīti, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱréddʰh₁eti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkʲrʲedʲiðʲ/
Verb
creitid (conjunct ·creti, verbal noun cre(i)tem)
- 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. 23c7
- Ní hed a méit non·chretid-si act fo·daimid fochidi airi.
- Not only do you pl believe it, but you endure sufferings for 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. 23c7
- to trust
Inflection
Simple, class A II present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Abs. | ||||||||
| Conj. | ·cretim | ·creti | ·cre(i)tid | cretet | |||||
| Rel. | cre(i)tes, crettes | cretme | cre(ti)te | ||||||
| Imperfect indicative | ·cret(t)e | ||||||||
| Preterite | Abs. | cretsit | |||||||
| Conj. | ·cretus | ·cretis | ·cret(t)i | ·cre(i)tsid | ·cre(i)tset | ||||
| Rel. | |||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | ro·cretus | ro·cretis | ro·cret(t)i | ro·cre(i)tsid | ro·cre(i)tset | |||
| Prot. | ·rochre(i)t | ||||||||
| Future | Abs. | cretfed (for expected *cretfid) | |||||||
| Conj. | ·cretfea | ·creitfet | ·creitfider | ||||||
| Rel. | cre(i)tfes(s) | cre(i)tfite | |||||||
| Conditional | ·creitfed | ||||||||
| Present subjunctive | Abs. | ||||||||
| Conj. | ro·cretea (deuterotonic ro-form) ·rrochraitea (prototonic ro-form) | ro·cretem (deuterotonic ro-form) | ·cretid | ||||||
| Rel. | |||||||||
| Past subjunctive | ·rochrete, ·ruchrete (prototonic ro-form) | ·cretitis | ·cret(t)e | ||||||
| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | cre(i)tem | ||||||||
| Past participle | |||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | creti | ||||||||
Descendants
- Irish: creid
- Manx: creid, cred
- Scottish Gaelic: creid
Mutation
| 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. | ||
Further reading
- C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “creitid”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
- Holger Pedersen (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 497