English
forebode
Forebode comes from Old English forebodian ‘to announce, declare, forebode’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *furaibudōną ‘to proclaim, lere, instruct’.
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*furaibudōną‘to proclaim, lere, instruct’reconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150forebodian‘to announce, declare, forebode’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500foreboden
- Englishearliest quotation 1741forebode
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*furaibudōną‘to proclaim, lere, instruct’reconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150forebodian‘to announce, declare, forebode’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500foreboden
- Englishearliest quotation 1741forebode
Earliest quotation: 1741, Conyers Middleton: “Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation,…”
Proto-Indo-European *per- ‘before, formerly’
Proto-Germanic *fura- ‘before, in front of, for’
Proto-West Germanic *forē- ‘before, in front of, fore-, pre-’
English fore-
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
Every English word from Proto-Germanic *furaibudōną
Today it means
verb To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *furaibudōną / forebode