Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *tekʷeti (to run, flee), from Proto-Indo-European *tekʷ- (to run, flow).[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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teichid (conjunct ·teich, verbal noun teiched)

  1. to flee
    • c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe, TBC-I 1258
      Intan fo·cheird a nómad mbir, techid ind íall ó Choin Chulaind a suide.
      When [Cú Chulainn] threw the ninth spear [at a flock of birds], the flock fled out of the way of Cú Chulainn.
    • 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. 44a19
      .i. amal bid nech tochorad a druim fria naimtea for teched remib, is samlid insin ro·táchatar.
      i.e. as though it were one who turned his back to his enemies in flight before them, it is thus that they fled.

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Irish: teith
  • Manx: çhea
  • Scottish Gaelic: teich
  • Proto-Brythonic: *texɨd

Noun

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teichid

  1. vocative/genitive singular of teiched

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*tekʷ-o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 377

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