forget

The story

1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*fragetan“to give up, forget”
2. Old English · inherited fromforġietan“to forget”
3. Middle English · inherited fromforgeten
4. English todayforget

From Middle English forgeten, forgiten, foryeten, forȝiten, from Old English forġietan (“to forget”) [influenced by Old Norse geta ("to get, to guess")], from Proto-West Germanic *fragetan (“to give up, forget”). Equivalent to for- + get. Cognate with : * Scots forget, forȝet (“to forget”), * West Frisian fergette, ferjitte, forjitte (“to forget”), * Dutch vergeten (“to forget”), * German vergessen (“to forget”).

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