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forthgo

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
forth-go
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To go forth; proceed.

Archaic; Intransitive verb

Etymology

From Middle English forthgon, forthgan, from Old English forþgān (“to go forth, advance, proceed, pass by, go away, go on, precede, succeed”), from Proto-Germanic *furþą (“forth”), *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to forth- + go. Cognate with Dutch voortgaan (“to continue, proceed, go ahead”), German fortgehen (“to go away, leave, depart, blin”), Swedish fortgå (“to continue, go on, proceed”).

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Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

forthgoes (present, singular) forthgoing (participle, present) forthwent (past) forthgone (participle, past)

Derived Forms

forthgoing

Questions

What does forthgo mean?
To go forth; proceed.
Where does forthgo come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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