fortacht

From Old Irish fortacht, verbal noun of for·tét (“to help”), from Proto-Celtic *uɸortixtā.

• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠɔɾˠt̪əxt̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠɔɾˠt̪a(x)t̪ˠ/

fortacht f (genitive singular fortachta)

1. verbal noun of fortaigh

   Synonym: fortú

2. aid, succour; relief, comfort

• anfhortacht

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fortacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fortacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Celtic *uɸortixtā. By surface analysis, for- +‎ techt.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸor.təxt/, [ˈɸortaxt]

fortacht f (genitive fortachtae or fortachtan)

1. verbal noun of for·tét
2. help, aid

• 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. 14^d17

  coní·árim-se peccad libsi uili, ꝉ ara·tart-sa fortacht dúibsi, arnap trom fuirib for n‑oínur

  so that I may not count sin with you all, or so that I may give you aid lest it be heavy on you by yourselves

• 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. 22^c3

  Dond érchoíliud .i. fortan·roíchan-ni hó ḟortacht dund érchoíliud as·rochoílsem; is hé didiu int ǽrchoíliud ut honorabiles rl.

  To the determination, i.e. you sg have instructed us by help to the determination that we have made; this then is the determination, ut honorabiles etc.

  (literally, “to the determination that we have determined”)

• 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. 40^b8

  cach la céin aisndís dïa thrógai, in céin n-aili aisṅdís dind ḟortacht du·rat Día dó ⁊ indas dund·rét

  at the one time a statement of his misery, at another time a statement of the help that God has given him and how he has protected him

• Middle Irish: fortacht, furtacht
  • Irish: fortacht
  • Scottish Gaelic: furtachd

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fortacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language