nínfortéit

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of ní (“not”) + n- (“us”) +‎ ·fortéit (third-person singular present indicative prototonic of for·tét)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [n͈ʲinˈɸorʲtʲeːdʲ]

Verb

nín·fortéit

1. (it) does not help us
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 4^a27

     I⟨s⟩ samlid trá is lobur ar n-irnigde-ni, mat réte frecndirci gesme, et nín·fortéit-ni in spirut oc suidiu.

     Thus then our way of praying is feeble if present things are what we ask for, and the spirit does not help us with this.