different between foorth vs forth

English

Adjective

foorth (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of fourth.

Adverb

foorth (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of forth

Middle English

Noun

foorth (plural foorths)

1. ford

Usage notes

• Attested only in the fourteenth century.

References

• “foorth” listed as a fourteenth- of “ford, n.¹”, listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /f???/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /fo(?)??/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /fo??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)?
• Homophone: fourth

Etymology 1

From Middle English forth, from Old English forþ, from Proto-Germanic *furþ?, from Proto-Indo-European *p??-to-, from *per-. Cognate with Dutch voort. See also ford.

Adverb

forth (not comparable)

1. Forward in time, place or degree.

   • From this time forth, I never will speak word.

   • 1709-1725, John Strype, Annals of the Reformation in England

     say forth
2. Out into view; from a particular place or position.

3. (obsolete) Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.

Synonyms

• fromward

Derived terms

• forth-

Translations

Preposition

forth

1. (obsolete) Forth from; out of.
   • a. 1631, John Donne, The Storme

     Some forth their cabins peepe.

Etymology 2

From fourth; compare forty.

Adjective

forth

1. Misspelling of fourth.

Noun

forth

1. Misspelling of fourth.

Anagrams

• froth

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• forð

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *furþ?, from Proto-Indo-European *pr?to-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?r?/

Adverb

forth

1. forwards, forth; onward

Preposition

forth

1. forward to, up to

Descendants

• Middle Low German: fort, vort
  • ? Danish: fort
  • ? Norwegian: fort
  • ? Swedish: fort