creitem

Old Irish

Alternative forms

creittem, cretem

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kreddīmā, verbal noun of *kreddīti. By surface analysis, creitid +‎ -em.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈkʲrʲedʲeβ̃]

Noun

creitem f

verbal noun of creitid
(religion) believing, belief, faith
- 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. 3^c2
  tri chretim i n-Ísu ꝉ isin beothu i táa Ísu iar n-esséirgu
  through belief in Jesus or in the life in which Jesus is after resurrection
- 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. 7^d10
  ɔrop inonn cretem bes hi far cridiu et a n-as·beraid hó bélib
  so that the belief which is in your pl heart and what you utter with [your] lips may be the same
(Christianity) (Christian) religion
credit, credibility, good standing

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	creitem^L	—	—
vocative	creitem^L	—	—
accusative	creitim^N	—	—
genitive	creitme^H	—	—
dative	creitim^L	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Synonyms

(faith, religion): iress

Descendants

Irish: creideamh
Manx: credjue
Scottish Gaelic: creideamh

Mutation

Mutation of *creitem*
radical	lenition	nasalization
creitem	chreitem	creitem pronounced with /ɡʲ-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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