English

forpine

Forpine comes from Middle English forpinen ‘to pine away’.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

Earliest quotation: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Book III, Canto X: “But, through long anguish and selfe-murd'ring He was so…”

Formed from for- + pine

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-

Latin pīnus ‘pine tree, fir tree’

Proto-West Germanic *pīnā ‘pine tree’

Old English *pīne

Middle English pyne

English pine

Every English word from Middle English forpinen

verb To pine away.

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