timthirecht

• timdirecht
• timthrecht

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.

timthirecht f (nominative plural timthirechta)

1. 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 , 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.

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

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