fortchide

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• fortgide

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɸor͈ʲtʲxʲiðʲe]

Participle

fortchide

1. past participle of for·tuigethar (“to cover”)

Adjective

fortchide

1. covert
   • 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^a3

     Amal nád n-airigther ⁊ nád fintar a ndu·gníther hi suidi, sic ba in ḟortgidiu ⁊ ba hi temul du·gníth Saul cona muntair intleda ⁊ erelca fri Dauid.

     As what is done in this is not perceived and discovered, so it was covertly and it was in darkness that Saul with his people was making snares and ambushes against David.

Declension

io/iā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	fortchide	fortchide	fortchide
Vocative	fortchidi
Accusative	fortchide	fortchidi
Genitive	fortchidi	fortchide	fortchidi
Dative	fortchidiu	fortchidi	fortchidiu
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	fortchidi	fortchidi
Vocative	fortchidi fortchidiu*
Accusative	fortchidi fortchidiu*
Genitive	fortchide
Dative	fortchidib
Notes	* when substantivized

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
fortchide	ḟortchide	fortchide pronounced with /β(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), “1 fortchide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language