Etymology

for to

Today it means: Expressing purpose: in order to. Full definition →

Middle English for to
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Middle English · inherited fromfor to
  2. English todayfor to

From Middle English for to, equivalent to for + to. Compare Scots for tae, Danish for at, Norwegian for å, Swedish för att.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.