English
forestretch
From fore- + stretch.
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 *(s)treg- ‘stiff, rigid’
Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan ‘to stretch, make taut’
Old English streċċan ‘to stretch, extend’
Middle English strecchen ‘to stretch out, extend’
English stretch
Today it means
verb To stretch out, forth, or forward.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / forestretch