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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish frith- (“counter-, beside, against”), from the verbal nouns of Old Irish verbs like fris·beir, fris·aicci, fris·indlea with the initial preverb fri, from Proto-Celtic *writ- (compare Welsh wrth, prefix gwrth-), from the zero grade of Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn”) (compare Latin versus (“against”)).
Prefix
frith-
- anti-, counter-
- Synonym: anta-
- back
- Synonym: cúl-
Derived terms
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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frith-
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fhrith-
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bhfrith-
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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
From Proto-Celtic *writ- (compare Welsh wrth, prefix gwrth-), from the zero grade of Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn”) (compare Latin versus (“against”)).
Pronunciation
Prefix
frith- (pretonic fris-)
- counter-, beside, against
Usage notes
There are three basic shapes of the prefix, used in the following manner:
- Frith- proper manifests as such before morpheme-initial vowels.
- frith- (“beside”) + aire (“watching”) → frithaire (“vigil”, literally “watching beside”)
- frith- + orcun (“striking down”) → frithorcun (“injury”)
- Fris- and fres- tend to appear before resonants. Originally fres- was created by a following vowel lowering the vowel in older fris-, but by Old Irish times the two variants were interchangeable.
- Fre- and fri- were used before stops. Like with fris- and fres-, the distribution of these two variants originally depended on whether the following morpheme caused its original -i- to lower to -e-, but by the Old Irish period this distribution was not strictly followed. It triggered no mutation of the next morpheme in line.
- frith- (“beside”) + cor (“putting”) → frecor (“cultivation, worship”)
- frith- (“against”) + tuidecht (“coming”) → frituidecht (“opposition”, literally “coming against”)
Later on, the non-frith- forms became fossilized as frith- overtook the other shapes in productivity. Frith- also caused lenition of the initial consonant of a following morpheme as this happened. For instance, frith- + gním (“work”) → frithgnam (“pains, labour, work”).
Derived terms
Descendants
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From frith.
Prefix
frith-
- by-, sub-
- counter-
Derived terms
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.