English
forthtell
From forth- + tell.
Proto-Indo-European *prto-
Proto-Germanic *furþą ‘forth, forward’
Proto-West Germanic *forþ ‘forward’
English forth-
Proto-Germanic *talō ‘narration, speech; number, calculation’
Proto-Germanic *taljaną ‘to enumerate, count; to recount, tell’
Proto-West Germanic *talljan ‘to count; to recount, tell’
Old English tellan ‘to count, calculate; to tell, narrate’
Middle English tellen ‘to count, tell’
English tell
Today it means
verb To tell forth; publish abroad.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / forthtell