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Middle Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cét-, from Proto-Celtic *kentus (“first”), from Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“to begin”).
Prefix
cét-
- first
Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
Middle Irish mutation
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cét- |
chét- |
cét- pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
Old Irish
Etymology
A conflation of two prefixes.
Prefix
cét- (pretonic ceta-)
- first
- cét- (“first”) + cin (“crime”) → cétchin (“first crime”)
- cét- (“first”) + aín (“fast”) → cétaín (“Wednesday”, literally “first fasting”)
- cét- (“first”) + id- (“it”) (relative) + do·rigni (“who have done”) → cetid·deirgni (“who have done it first”)
- cét- (“first”) + ro·chreti (“who had believed”) → ceta·ruchreti (“who had first believed”)
- (rare) with
- cét- (“with”) + buith (“being”) → cétbaid (“feeling”)
- cét- (“with”) + lúud (“moving”) → cétluth (“cohabitation”)
- cét- (“with”) + ·bí (“is, exists”) (habitual conjunct) → ceta·bí (“feels”, literally “exist with”)
Usage notes
- This prefix, in the form cét, is attached to nouns, while ceta- is attached to relative verbs. When prefixed to nouns, lenition is triggered on the root word.
- The verbal prefixation of the prefix meaning "with" is one-of-a-kind, only occurring to make ceta·bí (“to feel”).
Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
Old Irish mutation
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Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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cét-
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chét-
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cét- pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cét-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 cét-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ceta-, cita-, ciata-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language