- feart
- I
attention, notice; Breton gortos, to attend, root vert, vort; German warten, attend, English ward, from ware, Nor. varða, ward. An extension of root ver, watch, Latin vereor, etc.IIa virtue, efficiency, deed, Irish feart, Old Irish firt, pl. ferta, Welsh gwyrth; from Latin virtus (Windisch, Stokes).
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.