fortét

See also: fortet

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• for·téit

Etymology

From for- (“over-”) +‎ téit (“to go”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɸorˈtʲeːd]

Verb

for·tét (prototonic ·fortéit, verbal noun fortacht)

1. to help, assist

   Synonyms: fo·reith, con·gní, cobraithir

   • 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. 4^a27

     Is and didiu for·téit spiritus ar n-énirti-ni in tain bes n-inun accobor lenn .i. la corp et anim et la spirut. […] I⟨s⟩ samlid trá is lobur ar n-irnigde-ni, mat réte frecndirci gesme, et nín·fortéit-ni in spirut oc suidiu. Is hed didiu for·théit in spirut, in tain guidme-ni inducbáil diar corp et diar n-animm iar n-esséirgiu.

     So it is then that the spirit helps our weakness when we have the same desire, i.e. body and soul and spirit. […] Thus then our way of praying is feeble if present things are what we ask for, and the spirit does not help us with this. Then the spirit helps when we pray for glory for our body and for our soul after resurrection.

   • 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. 30^c3

     .i. is bǽs linni epert, intí charas nech ⁊ for·tét fo·certar side iarum hi selbad ind fir-sin forid·tet; amal as·mberar, is cele dǽ in fer hisin.

     The saying is a custom with us, that he whom anyone loves and helps is thrown afterwards into the possession of that man who helps him; as it is said, that man is a servant of God.

2. to corroborate, support
   • 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. 35^a8

     .i. ní si accuis insin arin·rogab Dauid acht is do Asraib int sainriud ⁊ is sí tra in chetbuid-sin for·thet in lebur ar chiunn.

     That is not the reason for which David sang it; but it is for the Assyrians, to be precise. And that then is the sense which the book supports below.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, suffixless preterite, a future, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.	for·tiag	for·téig	for·tét, for·téit		for·tégid
	Prot.			·fortéit
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.		for·dechud	for·dechuid
	Prot.
Future	Deut.		for·regae	for·rega
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.	for·tés	for·téis	fordon·té (with infixed pronoun don-)		fardum·thésid (with infixed pronoun dom-)	for·tiassat
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative							fortat·tet (with infixed pronoun dot-)
Verbal noun		fortacht
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of fortét

radical	lenition	nasalization
for·tét	for·thét	for·tét pronounced with /-d(ʲ)-/

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), “for-tét”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language