English

foreclaim

From fore- + claim.

Formed from fore- + claim

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 *kelh₁- ‘to shout’

Latin clāmō ‘to call’

Old French clamer ‘to call’

Middle English claimen

English claim

The story

From fore- + claim.

verb To claim in advance; claim beforehand.

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

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