Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo kill, destroy. · To annul, abolish, cancel. · To do away with, undo; to ruin. · To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust.
From Middle English fordon, from Old English fordōn (“to undo, bring to naught, ruin, destroy, abolish, kill, corrupt, seduce, defile”), from Proto-West Germanic *fradōn (“to ruin, destroy”), equivalent to for- + do. Cognate with Saterland Frisian ferdwo (“to waste, consume”), West Frisian ferdwaan (“to waste”), Dutch verdoen (“to kill, waste”), German Low German verdoon (“to waste, consume”), German vertun (“to waste, spend, consume”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionfordonenm
- Inherited-form mentionfordōnang · to undo, bring to naught, ruin, destroy, abolish, kill, corrupt, seduce, defile
- Inherited-form mention*fradōngmw-pro · to ruin, destroy
- Cognate mentionferdwostq · to waste, consume
- Cognate mentionferdwaanfy · to waste
- Cognate mentionverdoennl · to kill, waste
- Cognate mentionvertunde · to waste, spend, consume
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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