fritecht

Old Irish

Etymology

From frith- (“towards”) +‎ techt (“going”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸʲɾʲi.d̠ʲəxt̪/
  • (McCone 1996) [ˈɸʲɾʲi.d̠ʲext̪]
  • (Griffith 2016) [ˈɸʲɾʲi.d̠ʲəxt̪]

Noun

fritecht f

1. verbal noun of fris·tét (“to go towards, meet”)

Declension

Feminine ā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	fritechtL	—	—
vocative	fritechtL	—	—
accusative	fritechtN	—	—
genitive	fritechtaeH	—	—
dative	fritechtL	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of fritecht

radical	lenition	nasalization
fritecht	ḟritecht	fritecht pronounced with /βʲ-/

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

Further reading

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