for-

Etymology 1
From, , from , , , , from the merger of "away, away from"; see , and , , from , ,. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at.

Prefix

 * 1)   Forth: prefixed to verbs to indicate a direction of 'away', 'off', 'forth'.
 * is to steal away, is being a runaway,  is to exile,  is to drive away,  is to take away,  is to throw off,  is to shake off,  is to cast off
 * 1)   Exhausting: prefixed to verbs with the sense of wearing or exhausting one's self.
 * is to sing to exhaustion, is to wander until weary,  is to tire by travelling
 * 1)   Destructively: prefixed to verbs with the sense of destruction or pain.
 * is to hang to death, is to cause distress or regret to,  is to kill
 * 1)   Wrongly: prefixed to verbs with the sense of wrongly, amorally.
 * is to misteach, is to commit perjury,  is to worship wrongly,  is to mislead,  is to live pervertedly
 * 1)   Neglectfully: prefixed to verbs with the sense of abstaining from or neglecting.
 * is to allow someone or something to escape by letting them slip by; is to lose, neglect, or destroy by sluggishness;  is to lose or spoil by slackness
 * 1)   Very: intensifying adjectives.
 * is extremely black, is excessively swollen
 * 1)   Making: prefixed to verbs to indicate the subject takes the character of the verb.
 * is to make foolish or doting, is to bring into a state of guilt
 * 1)   Excessively: prefixed to verbs with the sense of doing so in excessive or overwhelm.
 * is to grow to excess, is to grow to excess,  is to affright or harry exceedingly
 * 1)   Excluding: prefixed to verbs to give the sense of prohibition or exclusion.
 * is to exclude by a judgment, is to shut off or out,  is to exclude
 * 1)   Intensively
 * is to beat, is to be in dread of,  is to lie in wait for
 * 1)   Thoroughly: prefixed to verbs with the sense of thoroughly, all over.
 * is to become grown over or become covered with growth, is to bathe abundantly or thoroughly,  is to seek thoroughly,  is to wrap up

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Etymology 2
From, which is identical with the preposition "". In "Old English and Middle English it occurs frequently as a variant of prefix, with the senses ‘before’, ‘in front’, ‘on behalf of’, etc.; cf. Old English for-, forecuman to come before, Middle English forganger and foreganger n."

Prefix

 * is to stand in front of so as to bar the way, is a deed done for another,  is alternative form of forelead (“lead forward, lead before”)
 * is to stand in front of so as to bar the way, is a deed done for another,  is alternative form of forelead (“lead forward, lead before”)

Etymology 3
"Occurring only in words adopted from French, as forcatch v., forfeit n., forprise n., represents Old French for-, fors-, identical with fors adv. (modern French hors) outside, out."

Prefix

 * 1)   Outside, out.
 * is to shut out, is an exception or reservation,  is that which is taken from somebody in requital of a misdeed committed

Etymology
From, from.

Usage notes
This element appears in a great number of adapted loanwords from German, Low German and Dutch, to render ver- or vor-, such as in. In these cases, it may represent senses that are no longer, or never were, productive in Danish.

Etymology
See.

Prefix

 * 1) Movement to a distance.
 * 2) Disappearance or annihilation.
 * 1) Disappearance or annihilation.
 * 1) Disappearance or annihilation.

Etymology
, from, partially from , taken as an adaptation of the adverb and used to calque Frankish words prefixed by  (compare 🇨🇬 = 🇨🇬,  = 🇨🇬,  = 🇨🇬, etc.), and partially continuing from , , , from , ,. See. Related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Etymology
From, from.

Prefix

 * 1) previous, before, first, pre-
 * 2)  extremely
 * 3) negative meaning
 * 1) negative meaning

Etymology
From.

Prefix

 * 1) over, superior, super-
 * 2) outer, external
 * 3) great, extreme

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

The Old English prefix was reinforced by, from ; In Middle English, this prefix is further reinforced by , from.

Prefix

 * 1) previous, before, first, pre-
 * 2)  extremely
 * 3) negative meaning
 * 1) negative meaning

Etymology
From.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, (🇨🇬), and, outside Germanic, with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬).

Prefix

 * 1) wrongly, away from, astray, abstention, prohibition, perversion, destruction
 * 2) very
 * 1) very
 * 1) very
 * 1) very
 * 1) very
 * 1) very
 * 1) very
 * 1) very
 * 1) very
 * 1) very
 * 1) very
 * 1) very

Usage notes

 * This prefix was almost always unstressed, in both nouns and verbs.

Etymology
From. Prefix form of.

Prefix

 * 1) over-