creitem

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• creittem, cretem

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kreddīmā, verbal noun of *kreddīti. By surface analysis, creitid +‎ -em.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʲrʲedʲeβ̃]

Noun

creitem f

1. verbal noun of creitid
2. (religion) believing, belief, faith
   • 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. 3^c2

     tri chretim i n-Ísu ꝉ isin beothu i táa Ísu iar n-esséirgu

     through belief in Jesus or in the life in which Jesus is after resurrection

   • 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. 7^d10

     ɔrop inonn cretem bes hi far cridiu et a n-as·beraid hó bélib

     so that the belief which is in your pl heart and what you utter with [your] lips may be the same

3. (Christianity) (Christian) religion
4. credit, credibility, good standing

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	creitemL	—	—
Vocative	creitemL	—	—
Accusative	creitimN	—	—
Genitive	creitmeH	—	—
Dative	creitimL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Synonyms

• (faith, religion): iress

Descendants

• Irish: creideamh
• Manx: credjue
• Scottish Gaelic: creideamh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
creitem	chreitem	creitem pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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