fortite

English

Etymology

Back-formed from fortition? Compare lenite, lenition.

Verb

fortite (third-person singular simple present fortites, present participle fortiting, simple past and past participle fortited)

  1. (uncommon) To fortify; to undergo, or cause to undergo, fortition.
    • 2010, Cynthia Schneider, A Grammar of Abma: A Language of Pentecost Island, Vanuatu:
      Fortited sound /t/ /k/
      If a verb root beginning with /d/ or /g/ is reduplicated, the initial sound in the base form of the verb is fortited. For example , the verb root /gita/ 'look at' is reduplicated to the left […]
    • 2023 May 18, Robert McColl Millar, R L Trask, Trask's Historical Linguistics, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
      It is very striking that natives of this archipelago, Scandinavian-speaking well into the modern era, should have developed */xw/ in a similar fortited way to their Faeroese and Norwegian neighbours.
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