English
forecount
From fore- + count.
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-
Latin putō ‘to reckon’
Latin computō ‘to calculate, compute’
Old French conter ‘to add up; to tell a story’
Anglo-Norman conter
Middle English counten ‘to count’
English count
Today it means
verb To count beforehand.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / forecount