forgery

The story

1. Latin · derived fromfabricārī“to frame, construct, fabricate”
2. Old French · derived fromforgier
3. Anglo-Norman · derived fromforger
4. Middle English · derived fromforgen
5. English todayforgery

Recorded since 1574; from forge + -ery, from Middle English forgen, via Anglo-Norman forger, from Old French forgier, from Latin fabricārī (“to frame, construct, fabricate”), itself from fabrica (“workshop; construction”), from faber (“workman, smith”). (fake): Compare typologically Russian кова́рный (kovárnyj), кова́рство (kovárstvo), ко́зни (kózni) (akin to кова́ть (kovátʹ), ку́зница (kúznica)).

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