teichid

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• techid

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tekʷeti (“to run, flee”), from Proto-Indo-European *tekʷ- (“to run, flow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʲexʲiðʲ/

Verb

teichid (conjunct ·teich, verbal noun teiched)

1. to flee
   • c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe, TBC-I 1258

     Intan fo·cheird a nómad mbir, techid ind íall ó Choin Chulaind a suide.

     When [Cú Chulainn] threw the ninth spear [at a flock of birds], the flock fled out of the way of Cú Chulainn.

   • 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. 44^a19

     .i. amal bid nech tochorad a druim fria naimtea for teched remib, is samlid insin ro·táchatar.

     i.e. as though it were one who turned his back to his enemies in flight before them, it is thus that they fled.

Inflection

Simple, class B I present, á preterite, unreduplicated s future, s subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	abs.	techu, techim	teichi	techid	techmai	techthe	techait
	conj.	·tech	·teich	·teich	·techam	·techid	·techat
	rel.
imperfect indicative
preterite	abs.			táich			táchatar
	conj.			·táich			·tachatar
	rel.
perfect	deut.			ro·táich			ro·tachatar
	prot.
future	abs.
	conj.	·téis
	rel.
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.		tessi
	conj.	·tes
	rel.
past subjunctive				·tessed
imperative
verbal noun		teiched
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• ad·teich

Descendants

• Irish: teith
• Manx: çhea
• Scottish Gaelic: teich
• → Proto-Brythonic: *texɨd
  • Middle Breton: techet
    • Breton: tec'hed
  • Cornish: têgh
  • Middle Welsh: techu

Noun

teichid

1. vocative/genitive singular of teiched

Further reading

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