Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Celtic *sekʷetor, from Proto-Indo-European *sékʷetor.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈsʲexʲiθʲirʲ/

Verb edit

seichithir (verbal noun seichem)

  1. to follow, pursue
    • 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. 25c6
      Hóre ammi maicc laí et soilse, ná seichem nahísiu.
      Since we are children of day and light, let us not follow these things.

Inflection edit

Derived terms edit

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
seichithir ṡeichithir unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit