English
forshake
Forshake comes from Middle English forschaken.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500forschaken
- Englishearliest quotation 1995forshake
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500forschaken
- Englishearliest quotation 1995forshake
Earliest quotation: 1995, Sudhāṃśu Śekhara Tuṅga, Bengali and Other Related Dialects of South Assam: “But meeting in a land foreign to almost everybody,…”
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 *skek- ‘to jump’
Proto-Germanic *skakaną ‘to shake, swing, escape’
Proto-West Germanic *skakan ‘to shake’
Old English sċacan ‘to pass or depart’
Middle English schaken ‘to rock or agitate’
English shake
The story
Likely influenced by or mistaken as an error for forsake.
Every English word from Middle English forschaken
Today it means
verb To shake off; rid or free oneself from.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English forschaken / forshake