The story
- German · borrowed fromfort“gone”
- English todayfort-da
Borrowed from German fort (“gone”) and da (“there”), exclamations that Sigmund Freud heard his grandson utter while playing, described in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920).
Words from the same roots
Germanfort all →
forty weepy weepy
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.