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Skundavisk

Etymology

From Middle Skundavisk for-, from Old Skundavisk for-, from Halmisk ᚠᛟᚱ- (for-), ᚠᚱᚨ- (fra-), from Proto-Germanic *fra-.

Pronunciation

Prefix

for-

  1. (no longer productive) for- (used to form verbs from verbs with an original meaning of 'away from' or 'out')
    geten > forgeten
    get > forget
  2. (no longer productive) used to form causal transitive verbs from intransitive verbs
    spreeden > forspreeden
    spread (intr.) > spread (tr.)

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