forne
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English, variation of Middle English ferne (“old, long ago, distant, past”), from Old English fyrn (“former, ancient”), from Proto-Germanic *furnaz, *fernaz, *firnijaz (“old, former”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“next, of, out, through”). More at fern.
Adjective[edit]
forne (comparative more forne, superlative most forne)
- (obsolete) Former.
- 1564, Nicholas Udall, Apophthegmatum opus (originally by Erasmus)
- The Camel's hous; whiche it is saied that a certain king / In forne yeares, when he had on a Dromedarie Camele escaped the handes of his enemies, builded there.
- 1564, Nicholas Udall, Apophthegmatum opus (originally by Erasmus)
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forne
Swedish[edit]
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forne
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