creitid

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kreddīti, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱréddʰh₁eti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʲrʲedʲiðʲ/

Verb

creitid (conjunct ·creti, verbal noun cre(i)tem)

  1. 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.
  2. to trust

Inflection

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
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.

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