# fortacht
## Irish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Connacht) IPA: /ˈfˠɔɾˠt̪əxt̪ˠ/
* (Ulster) IPA: /ˈfˠɔɾˠt̪a(x)t̪ˠ/

### Noun

fortacht f (genitive singular fortachta)
* verbal noun of fortaigh
    Synonym: fortú
* aid, succour; relief, comfort

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
nominative
fortacht
vocative
a fhortacht
genitive
fortachta
dative
fortacht
forms with the definite article
case
singular
nominative
an fhortacht
genitive
na fortachta
dative
leis an bhfortacht don fhortacht :

#### Derived terms

* anfhortacht

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* 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

## Old Irish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɸor.təxt/, [ˈɸortaxt]

### Noun

fortacht f (genitive fortachtae or fortachtan)
* verbal noun of for·tét
* help, aid

#### Declension

* $^H$ = triggers aspiration
* $^L$ = triggers lenition
* $^N$ = triggers nasalization
* $^H$ = triggers aspiration
* $^L$ = triggers lenition
* $^N$ = triggers nasalization

#### Quotations

* 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$^d$17
    coní·árim-se peccad libsi uili, ꝉ ara·tart-sa fortacht dúibsi, arnap trom fuirib for n‑oínurso that I may not count sin with you all, or so that I may give you aid lest it be heavy on you by yourselves
* c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 22$^c$3
    Dond érchoíliud .i. fortan·roíchan-ni hó ḟortacht dund érchoíliud as·rochoílsem; is hé didiu int ǽrchoíliud ut honorabiles rl.To the determination, i.e. you sg have instructed us by help to the determination that we have made; this then is the determination, ut honorabiles etc.(literally, “to the determination that we have determined”)
* c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 40$^b$8
    cach la céin aisndís dïa thrógai, in céin n-aili aisṅdís dind ḟortacht du·rat Día dó ⁊ indas dund·rétat 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

#### Descendants

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

### Mutation

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), “fortacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language