fortachtaigh

== Irish == === Etymology === From Middle Irish fortachtaigid, from Old Irish fortachtaigidir (“helps, succours”). By surface analysis, fortacht (“relief”) +‎ -igh (verbal suffix). === Verb === fortachtaigh (present analytic fortachtaíonn, future analytic fortachtóidh, verbal noun fortacht, past participle fortachtaithe) (ambitransitive) alternative form of fortaigh (“aid, succour; relieve, comfort”) ==== Conjugation ==== === Mutation === === Further reading === Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “fortaigh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fortachtaigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language