séitig

Old Irish

From an earlier meaning of "companion," from Proto-Celtic *sentikī, related to *sentus (“way, path”), also the source of sét (“path”).[1]

séitig f (genitive séitche, nominative plural séitchi)

wife, consort
Synonym: ben
- 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^a30
  Manid co séitchi ro·cretis, na·tuic séitchi iar cretim.
  If you sg have not believed with a wife, do not take a wife after believing.
- c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 108^a
  .i. is ed ainm setche Samsóin.
  [Delilah], it is the name of Samson's wife.
female companion
- c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 11, pages 115-179:
  Áos aithrigi tra ind í chetamus bíte fri tnúith ⁊ ad·ellad ilsétchi ⁊ dua·mberar cland, .uii. bliadna dóib oc pendaind.
  Now as to penitents, first, those that are given to lust, and that frequent various mates and have children born to them: seven years for them of penance.

Feminine ī-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	séitig^L	séitig^L	séitchi^H
Vocative	séitig^L	séitig^L	séitchi^H
Accusative	séitchi^N	séitig^L	séitchi^H
Genitive	séitche^H	séitche^L	séitche^N
Dative	séitchi^L	séitchib	séitchib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
séitig	ṡéitig	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

de Bernardo Stempel, Patrizia (1999) Nominale Wortbildung des älteren Irischen: Stammbildung und Derivation [Noun Formation in Old Irish: Stem-formation and derivation] (Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie) (in German), volume 15, Tübingen: Niemeyer, →ISBN, page 80