remitét

Old Irish

Etymology

From rem- (“before, fore-, pre-”) +‎ téit (“to go”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [r͈ʲeβ̃ʲiˈtʲeːd]

Verb

remi·tét (verbal noun remthechtas)

to go before, precede
- 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. 5^a30
  .i. massu rath-som, ní remdechutar gníma.
  i.e. if it is grace, works have not preceded [it].
- 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. 5^a32
  .i. diand·remthiasat gníma, sed debitum.
  i.e. [but] if works go before it, [it is] a debt. [Compare with Wb. 5a30 for context.]
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 17^b10
  .i. remi·tét .c. in .t
  i.e. [when] C precedes the T
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 197^b5
  Derbaid cenél dano i suidib a n-í remita·tét.
  What precedes them, then, certifies the gender in them.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, suffixless preterite, s subjunctive
		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd	singular	plural
present indicative	deut.			remi·tét
present indicative	prot.

imperfect indicative	deut.
imperfect indicative	prot.

preterite	deut.			reme·lluid (nasalizing relative)
preterite	prot.

perfect	deut.
perfect	prot.						·remdechutar

future	deut.
future	prot.

conditional	deut.
conditional	prot.

present subjunctive	deut.
present subjunctive	prot.						·remthiasat

past subjunctive	deut.			remi·téised
past subjunctive	prot.						·remthíastais

imperative

verbal noun		remthechtas
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of *remi·tét*
radical	lenition	nasalization
remi·tét	remi·thét	remi·tét pronounced with /dʲ-/

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), “remi-tét”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language