credjue

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish creitem (“act of believing; act of coming to believe, being converted; belief, faith, (Christian) religion; credit, credibility, good standing”), verbal noun of creitid (“believes, trusts; gives allegiance, homage; accepts the faith, is converted”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkreˌʒu], [kreˌju]

Noun

credjue m (genitive singular credjue, plural credjughyn)

1. belief, faith, religion
2. creed, conviction
3. denomination

Synonyms

• (religion): craueeaght

Derived terms

• breck-chredjue (“mixed religion”)
• co-chredjue (“conformity of belief”)

Related terms

• credjal (“credit, credence”)

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
credjue	chredjue	gredjue
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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