Middle English word forshetten comes from Old English for-, Old English sċyttan, and later Old English forscyttan (To shut off or out.)
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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for- | Old English (ang) | Forming verbs from verbs with various senses especially ‘wrongly, away from, astray, abstention, prohibition, perversion, destruction’. Used to create intensified adjectives and verbs from other adjectives and verbs, with the sense of completely or fully. Compare Modern English use of up. Very. |
sċyttan | Old English (ang) | |
forscyttan | Old English (ang) | To shut off or out. |
forshetten | Middle English (enm) |