caithid
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Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *katyeti. Matasović assumes, based on the Gaulish source of Latin catēia (“projectile”), that the meaning “throw” was primary, even though that meaning is not attested until Middle Irish.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]caithid (prototonic ·caithi, verbal noun caithem)
Inflection
[edit]Simple, class A II present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Abs. | ||||||||
| Conj. | ·caithi | ·caodet; ro·caithet (ro-form) | |||||||
| Rel. | |||||||||
| Imperfect indicative | |||||||||
| Preterite | Abs. | ||||||||
| Conj. | ·caith | ||||||||
| Rel. | |||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Future | Abs. | ||||||||
| Conj. | ·caithiub | ·rocaithfet (ro-form) | |||||||
| Rel. | |||||||||
| Conditional | |||||||||
| Present subjunctive | Abs. | ||||||||
| Conj. | ·caithea | ||||||||
| Rel. | |||||||||
| Past subjunctive | ·caite | ||||||||
| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | caithem | ||||||||
| Past participle | |||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| caithid | chaithid | caithid pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kat-yo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 195-196
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “caithid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language