English
forlese
Forlese comes from Old English forlēosan ‘to lose, abandon, let go, destroy, ruin’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *fraleusaną.
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*fraleusaną‘to lose, to cease to have’reconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150forlēosan‘to lose, abandon, let go, destroy, ruin’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500forlesen
- Englishearliest quotation 1590forlese
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*fraleusaną‘to lose, to cease to have’reconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150forlēosan‘to lose, abandon, let go, destroy, ruin’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500forlesen
- Englishearliest quotation 1590forlese
Earliest quotation: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Book III, Canto IV: “Soone as they bene arriv'd upon the brim /…”
Formed from for- + lese
Proto-Indo-European *pro- ‘before, in front of’
Proto-Germanic *fra- ‘off, away’
Proto-West Germanic *fra- ‘forms verbs with the sense of "away from" or…’
English for-
Linked words
through Proto-Germanic *fraleusaną ‘to lose, to cease to have’
Today it means
verb To abandon, forsake.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *fraleusaną / forlese