Editing Tmesis (section)

===Old Irish===
Tmesis can be found in some early Old Irish texts, such as [[Audacht Morainn]] (The Testament of Morann). Old Irish verbs are found at the beginning of clauses (in a VSO word order) and often possess prepositional pre-verbal particles, e.g. ''ad-midethar'' (ad- prefix) "evaluates, estimates". Tmesis occurs when the pre-verbal particle is separated from the verbal stem and the verbal stem is placed in clause final position while the pre-verbal particle/prefix remains at the beginning of the clause. This results in an abnormal word order, e.g. ''ad- cruth caín -cichither'' "[the] fair form will be seen" (where ''ad-chichither'' is the future third-person singular passive of ''ad-cí'' "sees").<ref name="Russell">{{cite book |last=Russell |first=Paul |title=An Introduction to the Celtic Languages |publisher=Routledge |year=2014 |location=London |pages=288 }}</ref>