English

forewarm

fore- + warm

Formed from fore- + warm

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-Germanic *warmaz ‘warm’

Proto-West Germanic *warm ‘warm’

Old English wearm ‘warm’

Middle English warm ‘warm’

English warm

Today it means

verb To warm in advance.

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

Etymograph / forewarm