The story
- Old English · inherited fromforþȳ
- Middle English · inherited fromforthy
- English todayforthy
From Middle English forthy, from Old English forþȳ, for þȳ þe, forþon (“because, since”), from for + þȳ, þon (“by that, therefore”), instrumental case of þæt (“that”); Cognate with Yola farthoo (“why”), Old Norse fyrir því (at) (Danish & Norwegian fordi (“because”), Swedish för att). More at for, the, that.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.