frithcheist

Old Irish

Etymology

From frith- (“against”) +‎ ceist (“question”).

Noun

frithcheist f

1. objection
   • c. 850 Glosses on the Carlsruhe Beda, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 10–30, Bcr. 32^b1

     hi frithcheist

     in objection (glossing Latin si quis obiecerit))

Inflection

Feminine ī-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	frithcheistL	frithcheistL	frithchestaiH
vocative	frithcheistL	frithcheistL	frithchestaiH
accusative	frithcheistN	frithcheistL	frithchestaiH
genitive	frithchestaeH	frithchestaeL	frithchestaeN
dative	frithcheistL	frithchestaib	frithchestaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Mutation

Mutation of frithcheist

radical	lenition	nasalization
frithcheist	ḟrithcheist	frithcheist pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/

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), “frithcheist”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language