Middle English word forwerpen comes from Old English weorpan (To throw, cast down, warp.), Old English for-
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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weorpan | Old English (ang) | To throw, cast down, warp. |
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. |
forweorpan | Old English (ang) | To cast away, throw away, reject. |
forwerpen | Middle English (enm) | (transitive) to cast out, reject, abandon, banish. (transitive) to neglect; to refrain from doing. (transitive) to renounce, forsay. (transitive) to shed, cast off. (transitive) to waste. |