English

forayer

From foray + -er.

Formed from foray + -er

Proto-Indo-European *patrom ‘fodder’

Proto-Germanic *fōdrą ‘fodder, feed, sheath’

Frankish *fōdar ‘fodder, sheath’

Old French forrier

Middle English forrayen ‘to pillage’

English foray

Today it means

noun One who makes or joins in a foray.

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