afford
English
/əˈfoɹd/, /əˈfɔːd/, /əˈfo(ː)ɹd/, /əˈfoəd/
verb
Definitions
- To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious;—with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough.
- To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury.
- To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue.
- To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English afforthen inherited from Old English forþian derived from Proto-Germanic *furþōną, *furþa-, *furþa (forward, forth) pre from English forth.
Origin
English
forth
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- affordability English
- affordable English
- affordably English
- affordance English
- afforder English
- affordest English
- affordeth English
- affordment English
- farforth English
- forth English
- forthby English
- forthwithal English
- further English
- go forth English
- henceforth English
- semiaffordable English
- straightforth English
- thenceforth English
- unaffordability English
- unaffordable English
- whenceforth English
- withinforth English
- afforder French
- *furþa-, *furþa Proto-Germanic
- *furþōną Proto-Germanic
- forþian Old English
- afforthen Middle English
- aforthen Middle English
- forth Middle English
- affaûrder Norman
- affuird Scots
- affuirdable Scots