Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *tekʷetos, whence also Middle Welsh tebet.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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teiched m (genitive teichid, no plural)

  1. verbal noun of teichid (to flee): flight
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 54b12
      ná cumgat .i. tíagat for teiched
      Let them not be able, i.e. let them go in flight

Declension

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Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative teiched, teched
Vocative teichid, techid
Accusative teichedN, teched
Genitive teichidL, techid
Dative teichiudL, techiud
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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

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