fortite

present singular third person fortites · participle present fortiting · participle past fortited · past fortited

1. uncommonhuman sciencesTo fortify; to undergo, or cause to undergo, fortition.

   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.

   2023 May 18, Robert McColl Millar, R L Trask, Trask's Historical Linguistics, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN

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   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[…]

   2010, Cynthia Schneider, A Grammar of Abma: A Language of Pentecost Island, Vanuatu