foreith
Present
| 3rd sing. | foreith |
| 2nd plur. | foreithe |
For the machine-generated forms (marked with mono-space font), C.f. tinaid, sroiglid.
Nominal Forms
For the machine-generated forms (marked with mono-space font), C.f. etarscara.
Verbs conjugated like foreith
doessairg,
cruthaigidir,
folúathar,
conúalai,
domaisi,
docoissin,
cluichigidir,
muinethar,
adcumaing,
arcuirethar,
congair,
conceil,
fortachtaigid,
ardíbdai,
fercaigidir,
immcuirethar,
étaigidir,
dofortai,
fúachaid,
adaig, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Sample Sentences
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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. 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:]
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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!) [c. 808, Félire Oengusso, Ep. 405; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:]
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *uɸoreteti (“to help”) (compare Welsh gwared), a calque of Latin succurrō. By surface analysis, fo- + reithid. See: Welsh '
gwared', Latin '
succurrō'.