foreith – Old Irish verb conjugation

Old Irish verb forms of foreith

foreith

Present

3rd sing.foreith
2nd plur.foreithe
For the machine-generated forms (marked with mono-space font), C.f. tinaid, sroiglid.

Nominal Forms

Verbal Nounforeithd
For the machine-generated forms (marked with mono-space font), C.f. etarscara.

Sample Sentences

  • 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:]
  • 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'.