English

foretake

From fore- + take.

Formed from fore- + take

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-

Old English tacan ‘to grasp’

Middle English taken ‘to take’

English take

Today it means

verb To take, receive, or adopt beforehand; assume.

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

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