The story
- Old English · inherited fromforgyltan“to sin, be or become guilty”
- Middle English · inherited fromforgilten
- English todayforguilt
From Middle English forgilten, forgulten (“to render guilty, forfeit by guilt”), from Old English forgyltan (“to sin, be or become guilty”), equivalent to for- + guilt.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.