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Old English · prefix

for-

Part of speech
prefix
IPA
/for/
Syllables
for (1 syllable)

Meaning

  1. wrongly, away from, astray, abstention, prohibition, perversion, destruction (verbal prefix)

    forwyrċan

    to do wrong, sin

  2. used to create intensified adjectives and verbs from other adjectives and verbs, with the sense of completely or fully; compare Modern English use of up

    forblāwan

    to blow up, inflate

  3. very

    forlȳtel

    very little

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fra-. Cognates Cognate with Old Frisian for-, Old Saxon far-, for-, Dutch ver-, Old High German fir-, far- (German ver-), and, outside Germanic, with Ancient Greek περί (perí), Latin per-, Old Church Slavonic пре- (pre-) (Russian пе́ре- (pére-)).

Descendants

for-

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