English
foredrove
From fore- + drove.
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-
Today it means
noun An animal or animals driven ahead of the corpse at a funeral or mortuary, or at the offering of a corsepresent.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / foredrove