English
forbode
Forbode comes from Old English forbod ‘a forbidding, prohibition’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- ‘to be awake, fully perceive’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰewdʰ-‘to be awake, fully perceive’reconstructed
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*frabudą‘prohibition’reconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150forbod‘a forbidding, prohibition’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500forbode
- Englishearliest quotation 1621same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰewdʰ-‘to be awake, fully perceive’reconstructed
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*frabudą‘prohibition’reconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150forbod‘a forbidding, prohibition’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500forbode
- Englishearliest quotation 1621same form
Earliest quotation: 1621, Henry Ainsworth, Annotations Upon the First Book of Moses: “So Moses himself explaineth it in the words here…”
Proto-Indo-European *pro- ‘before, in front of’
Proto-Germanic *fra- ‘off, away’
Proto-West Germanic *fra- ‘forms verbs with the sense of "away from" or…’
English for-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- ‘to be awake’
Proto-Germanic *budōną ‘to announce, proclaim’
Proto-West Germanic *bodōn ‘to announce, proclaim’
Old English bodian ‘to announce, proclaim, tell’
Middle English boden
English bode
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- ‘to be awake, fully perceive’
Today it means
noun A forbidding, a prohibition; a command forbidding a thing.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- / forbode