for-
Old English
prefix
Definitions
- wrongly, away from, astray, abstention, prohibition, perversion, destruction
- used to create intensified adjectives and verbs from other adjectives and verbs, with the sense of completely or fully, compare Modern English use of m
- very
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *fer-.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*fer-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- for- English
- peri- English
- periastron English
- perichaetium English
- periosteum English
- *perdonare Latin
- *perdono, *perdonāre Latin
- *perdonō Latin
- *pertraiciō Latin
- *pertrāctiāre Latin
- *pertrāicere Latin
- cambium Latin
- helium Latin
- iactō Latin
- per- Latin
- perichaetium Latin
- Perikambium German
- ver- German
- vereinbaren German
- vergießen German
- perfumare Italian
- perihelium Dutch, Flemish
- ver- Dutch, Flemish
- verdrinken Dutch, Flemish
- par- French
- пре- Russian
- περί Ancient Greek
- περίπλους Ancient Greek
- περισωρεύω Ancient Greek
- *bhā- Proto-Indo-European
- *dgʷhey- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂eyḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *per-, *peri Proto-Indo-European
- *pro- Proto-Indo-European
- *wer- Proto-Indo-European
- *aihtiz Proto-Germanic
- *farswelganą Proto-Germanic
- *fer- Proto-Germanic
- *firi- Proto-Germanic
- *fra- Proto-Germanic
- *fraetaną Proto-Germanic
- *fragebaną Proto-Germanic
- *fur- Proto-Germanic
- fer- Old English
- fordwīnan Old English
- forsċieppan Old English
- forwærnan Old English
- for- Middle English
- for- Old Norse
- periskop Danish
- *per- Proto-Slavic
- fourjugier Old French
- parjeter, pargeter Old French
- pri Esperanto
- pre- Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- περι- Greek (modern)
- parfum Indonesian
- er- Middle Dutch
- vrecht Middle Dutch
- ver- Afrikaans
- ver- Middle High German
- 𐍆𐍂𐌰- Gothic
- *frēht Old Dutch
- vor- Middle Low German
- vracht Middle Low German
- vrecht Middle Low German
- vrācht Middle Low German
- far- Old Saxon
- frāht Old Saxon
- per- Asturian
- пре- Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- *firbannjan, furbannjan, *furbannjan Frankish
- perfumar Old Occitan