fortaigh

== Irish == === Alternative forms === fortachtaigh === Etymology === From Middle Irish fortaigid, furtaigid (“helps, succours”), a late form of Old Irish for·tét (the verbal noun of which is fortacht). === Verb === fortaigh (present analytic fortaíonn, future analytic fortóidh, verbal noun fortacht, past participle fortaithe) (ambitransitive) aid, succour; relieve, comfort ==== Conjugation ==== Alternative verbal noun: fortú === 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), “1 fortaigid, furtaigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language