frithtuidecht

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• frituidecht

Etymology

From frith- +‎ tuidecht. Delenition of th to t before t and degemination of the resulting t-t to single t are expected phonologically and reflected in the spelling frituidecht. It is not known whether the morphologically transparent spelling frithtuidecht reflected a novel pronunciation using the cluster [-θ.t-].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɸʲrʲi(θ)tuðʲəxt]

Noun

frithtuidecht f (genitive frithtuidechtae)

1. verbal noun of fris·taít
2. opposition, resistance

Declension

Feminine ā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	frithtuidechtL	—	—
vocative	frithtuidechtL	—	—
accusative	frithtuidechtN	—	—
genitive	frithtuidechtaeH	—	—
dative	frithtuidechtL	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Quotations

• c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 20^b2

  Is airi da·rogart-som noíb, ar frith⟨t⟩uidecht innaní as·rubartatar nád robae remdéicsiu ná láthar nDǽ dïa dúlib.

  It is for this reason that he has called himself a saint, because of the opposition of those who have said that there is neither providence nor dispensation of God for his creatures.

Descendants

• Irish: friotaíocht

Mutation

Mutation of frithtuidecht

radical	lenition	nasalization
frithtuidecht	ḟrithtuidecht	frithtuidecht 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), “frithtuidecht, frituidecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language