Etymology

forlie

F4O1R1L1I1E1

Today it means: To lie with. Full definition →

Middle English forliggen ← Old English forliċġan ← Proto-West Germanic *fraliggjan
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*fraliggjan
  2. Old English · inherited fromforliċġan“to lie with, fornicate”
  3. Middle English · inherited fromforliggen
  4. English todayforlie

From Middle English forliggen, from Old English forliċġan (reflexive, “to lie with, fornicate”), from Proto-West Germanic *fraliggjan, equivalent to for- + lie. Cognate with Dutch verliggen, German verliegen.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.