seichithir

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sekʷetor, from Proto-Indo-European *sékʷetor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʲexʲiθʲirʲ/

Verb

seichithir (verbal noun seichem)

1. to follow, pursue
   • 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. 25^c6

     Hóre ammi maicc laí et soilse, ná seichem nahísiu.

     Since we are children of day and light, let us not follow these things.

Inflection

Simple, class A II present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive, deponent

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Abs.						sechitir
	Conj.						·sechetar, ·seichetar
	Rel.
Imperfect indicative
Preterite	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.
Perfect	Deut.			ro·sechestar
	Prot.
Future	Abs.			seichfid
	Conj.
	Rel.
Conditional
Present subjunctive	Abs.
	Conj.			·sechethar	·sechemmar
	Rel.
Past subjunctive						·sechide	·sechitis
Imperative				seiched; num·sicheth (with infixed pronoun m-)	sechem, seichem
Verbal noun		sechem, seichem
Past participle
Verbal of necessity		sechidi

Derived terms

• con·tochosgedar
• do·coisgedar
• fo·tochosgedar

 

Mutation

Mutation of seichithir

radical	lenition	nasalization
seichithir	ṡeichithir	unchanged

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