credjue

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkredʒu/, [ˈkreʒu], [ˈkreju]

credjue m (genitive singular credjue, plural credjughyn)

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

• (religion): craueeaght

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

• credjal (“credit, credence”)

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