for
Middle English
preposition
Definitions
- for
Etymology
Inherited from Old English for (owing to, because of, for the sake of, by reason of, in order to, for, on account of, as to, from, through) derived from Proto-Germanic *fura.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*fura
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bond for deed English
- for English
- forasmuch English
- forcause English
- forever English
- formenism English
- forwhy English
- herefor English
- herefore English
- therefor English
- therefore English
- wherefore English
- *fura Proto-Germanic
- *furi Proto-Germanic
- for Old English
- formest Old English
- her Middle English
- her-for Middle English
- farstān Old Dutch
- fi Jamaican Creole