frithcheist

Old Irish

Etymology

From frith- (“against”) +‎ ceist (“question”).

Noun

frithcheist f

1. objection
   • c. 850 Glosses on the Carlsruhe Beda, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 10–30, Bcr. 32^b1

     hi frithcheist

     in objection (glossing Latin si quis obiecerit))

Inflection

Feminine ī-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	frithcheistL	frithcheistL	frithchestaiH
Vocative	frithcheistL	frithcheistL	frithchestaiH
Accusative	frithcheistN	frithcheistL	frithchestaiH
Genitive	frithchestaeH	frithchestaeL	frithchestaeN
Dative	frithcheistL	frithchestaib	frithchestaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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

Further reading

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