Etymograph

English

forlet

Forlet comes from Middle English forleten ‘forsake, reject, renounce, omit, lose, forgive’, from Old English forlǣtan ‘to leave’, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fralētaną.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*fralētaną‘to leave, dismiss’reconstructed
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150forlǣtan‘to leave’
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500forleten‘forsake, reject, renounce, omit, lose, forgive’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1807forlet

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*fralētaną‘to leave, dismiss’reconstructed
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150forlǣtan‘to leave’
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500forleten‘forsake, reject, renounce, omit, lose, forgive’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1807forlet

Earliest quotation: 1807, The Gothic Gospel of saint Matthew: “I soothly quoth, then say, to you, for that…”

Formed from for- + let

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-

Proto-Indo-European *leh₁d- ‘to be tired’

Proto-Germanic *lētaną ‘to leave behind’

Proto-West Germanic *lātan ‘to let’

Old English lǣtan ‘to allow’

Middle English leten ‘to let’

English let

Every English word from Proto-Germanic *fralētaną

Today it means

verb To abandon; give up; leave; leave behind; forsake; desert; neglect.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *fralētaną / forlet

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