The story
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*fradōmijaną“to condemn, damn”
- Old English · inherited fromfordēman“to condemn, sentence, doom; prejudice; decide”
- Middle English · inherited fromfordemen
- English todayfordeem
From Middle English fordemen, from Old English fordēman (“to condemn, sentence, doom; prejudice; decide”), from Proto-Germanic *fradōmijaną (“to condemn, damn”). By surface analysis, for- + deem. Cognate with Old High German fortuomen, furtuomen, Icelandic fordæma (“to condemn”), Dutch verdoemen.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.