fordo

The story

1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*fradōn“to ruin, destroy”
2. Old English · inherited fromfordōn“to undo, bring to naught, ruin, destroy, abolish, kill, corrupt, seduce, defile”
3. Middle English · inherited fromfordon
4. English todayfordo

From Middle English fordon, from Old English fordōn (“to undo, bring to naught, ruin, destroy, abolish, kill, corrupt, seduce, defile”), from Proto-West Germanic *fradōn (“to ruin, destroy”), equivalent to for- + do. Cognate with Saterland Frisian ferdwo (“to waste, consume”), West Frisian ferdwaan (“to waste”), Dutch verdoen (“to kill, waste”), German Low German verdoon (“to waste, consume”), German vertun (“to waste, spend, consume”).

Words from the same roots