forðum

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Adverb

 * 1) formerly, long ago

Etymology
Etymology obscure, but ultimately from, from 🇨🇬, whence also 🇨🇬,.

According to Stiles 2013 possibly from Proto-Norse *for þaim > *forþam with regular change of *-am to -um.

Adverb

 * 1) aforetime, formerly, once, erst
 * 2) * verse 47 of the 
 * "non"

- Ungr var ek forðum, / fór ek einn saman, þá varð ek villr vega; auðigr þóttumk, / er ek annan fann, maðr er manns gaman.


 * 1) of yore, in days of old
 * 2) * verse 2 of the 
 * "non"

- Ek man jǫtna / ár um borna, þá er forðum mik / fǿdda hǫfðu