foreith
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *uɸoreteti (“to help”) (compare Welsh gwared), a calque of Latin succurrō. By surface analysis, fo- + reithid.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /foˈr͈ʲeθʲ/
Verb
fo·reith
- to help, to aid, to succour
- Synonyms: for·tét, con·gní, cobraithir
- c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, published in Táin Bó Cúailnge. Recension I (1976, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Cecile O'Rahilly, TBC-I 223
- Luid Fergus didiu fordul mór fadess co fórsed do Ultaib terchomrac slóig.
- Fergus went out of his way to the south in order to aid [by buying time] the Ulstermen gathering their army.
- c. 808, Félire Oengusso, Ep. 405; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:
- Ar écnairc ind ríg-sa fris·n-agar a nnúall-sa, fa·rith asint sním-sa, in pauperán trúag-sa!
- For the sake of the king to whom this cry was made, help him out of this sadness, this wretched pauper!
Inflection
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) also fo·rreith |
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) pronounced with /-r(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “foreith”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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