timthirecht

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Contains the prefixes to- +‎ imm- +‎ dí-. The third prefix may also instead be aith-. The -ch- in this verbal noun, unusual for a relative of reithid, is due to analogy to the compounds of téit (“to go”). Note that téit manifests as -tet when unstressed, and reithid appears as -ret when unstressed. Since the verbal nouns of the former end in techt, timthirecht (a verbal noun of a reithid derivative ending in -ret) adopted -recht to match.

Noun

timthirecht f (nominative plural timthirechta)

verbal noun of do·imthiret
1. service
  - 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^d9
    .i. bad í timthirect .i. in obidentia do chách.
    i.e. let it be in service [ministry, Thes. Pal], that is, in obedience to everyone.
  - 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. 138^a5
    .i. as neph-atdanaigthe in timthrecht hi-sin.
    i.e. that that service is unremunerated.
2. the act of attending to something
  - 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. 10^d17
    .i. it hé són Leviti olchene no·bítis oc timthirecht inna n-idbart.
    i.e. those are the Levites who used to be attending to the offerings.

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	timthirecht^L	timthirecht^L	timthirechta^H
Vocative	timthirecht^L	timthirecht^L	timthirechta^H
Accusative	timthirecht^N	timthirecht^L	timthirechta^H
Genitive	timthirechtae^H	timthirecht^L	timthirecht^N
Dative	timthirecht^L	timthirechtaib	timthirechtaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Middle Irish: timthirecht
- Irish: timireacht (“chores”)

Mutation

Mutation of *timthirecht*
radical	lenition	nasalization
timthirecht	thimthirecht	timthirecht pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.