English

fordull

Fordull comes from Middle English fordullen.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

Earliest quotation: 1843, Thomas Gray: “I followed after, fordulled for rudeness, […]”

Formed from for- + dull

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 *dʰwel-

…

Proto-Germanic *dulaz ‘confused, stunned’

Proto-West Germanic *dol

Old English dol ‘dull, foolish, erring, heretical’

Middle English dull

English dull

Every English word from Middle English fordullen

verb To make dull; stupefy.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.