# fortét
## Old Irish
### Alternative forms

* for·téit

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɸorˈtʲeːd]

### Verb

for·tét (prototonic ·fortéit, verbal noun fortacht)
* 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$^a$27
    Is and didiu for·téit spiritus ar n-énirti-ni in tain bes n-inun accobor lenn .i. la corp et anim et la spirut. […] I⟨s⟩ samlid trá is lobur ar n-irnigde-ni, mat réte frecndirci gesme, et nín·fortéit-ni in spirut oc suidiu. Is hed didiu for·théit in spirut, in tain guidme-ni inducbáil diar corp et diar n-animm iar n-esséirgiu.So it is then that the spirit helps our weakness when we have the same desire, i.e. body and soul and spirit. […] Thus then our way of praying is feeble if present things are what we ask for, and the spirit does not help us with this. Then the spirit helps when we pray for glory for our body and for our soul after resurrection.
** c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 30$^c$3
    .i. is bǽs linni epert, intí charas nech ⁊ for·tét fo·certar side iarum hi selbad ind fir-sin forid·tet; amal as·mberar, is cele dǽ in fer hisin.The saying is a custom with us, that he whom anyone loves and helps is thrown afterwards into the possession of that man who helps him; as it is said, that man is a servant of God.
* to corroborate, support
** c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 35$^a$8
    .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

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

### 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