The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*prto-
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*furþą“forth, forward”
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*forþ
- Old English · inherited fromforþ-“forth, forward, further, away, continually”
- Middle English · inherited fromforth-
- English todayforth-
From Middle English forth-, from Old English forþ- (“forth, forward, further, away, continually”), from Proto-West Germanic *forþ, from Proto-Germanic *furþą (“forth, forward”), from Proto-Indo-European *prto-. More at forth.
Words from the same roots
Proto-West Germanic*forþ all →
forth
Proto-Germanic*furþą all →
forthaffordforthcomeforthgoforthward
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.