English

forswollen

Forswollen comes from Middle English forswollen.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

Earliest quotation: 1567, Arthur Golding, The XV Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso: “Who tother day wyth arrowes kéene, haue nayled to…”

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-Germanic *swellaną ‘to swell’

Proto-Germanic *swullanaz

Old English swollen

Middle English swollen

Every English word from Middle English forswollen

adj Excessively swollen; (figuratively) puffed up with pride; boastful; enraged.

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