different between forsake vs fortake

English

Etymology

From Middle English forsaken (“to abandon, desert, repudiate, withdraw allegiance from; to deny, reject, shun; to betray; to divorce (a spouse); to disown; to be false to (one's nature, vows, etc.; to give up, renounce, surrender; to discard; to omit; to decline, refuse, reject; to avoid, escape; to cease, desist; to evade, neglect; to contradict, refute; to depart, leave; to become detached, separate”) [and other forms], from Old English forsacan (“to oppose; to give up, renounce; to decline, refuse”), from Proto-West Germanic *frasakan (“to forsake, renounce”), from Proto-Germanic *fra- (prefix meaning ‘away, off’) + *sakan? (“to charge; to dispute”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh?g- (“to seek out”)). The English word can be analysed as for- +? sake, and is cognate with Saterland Frisian ferseeke (“to deny, refuse”), West Frisian fersaakje, Dutch verzaken (“to renounce, forsake”), Middle High German versachen (“to deny”), Danish forsage (“to give up”), Swedish försaka (“to be without, give up”), Norwegian forsake (“to give up, renounce”), Gothic ???????????????????? (sakan, “to quarrel; to rebuke”), .

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f???se?k/, /f?-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /f???se?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k
• Hyphenation: for?sake

Verb

forsake (third-person singular simple present forsakes, present participle forsaking, simple past forsook, past participle forsaken)

1. (transitive) To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something).
2. (transitive, obsolete) To decline or refuse (something offered).
3. (transitive, obsolete) To avoid or shun (someone or something).
4. (transitive, obsolete) To cause disappointment to; to be insufficient for (someone or something).

Conjugation

• Archaic second-person singular simple present form: forsakest
• Archaic third-person singular simple present indicative form: forsaketh

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• forsake in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• forsake in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• freakos

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• forsage

Etymology

Borrowed from Low German vorsaken, from Old Saxon farsakan, from Proto-West Germanic *frasakan (“to forsake, renounce”).

Verb

forsake (imperative forsak, present tense forsaker, simple past and past participle forsaka or forsaket, present participle forsakende)

1. to give up, relinquish, forsake
2. to denounce (the devil)

Derived terms

• forsakelse

References

• “forsake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

English

Etymology

From Middle English fortaken, equivalent to for- +? take. Cognate with dialectal Norwegian fortaka (“to assail, assault”), Swedish förta (“to deprive, take away, deaden”).

Verb

fortake (third-person singular simple present fortakes, present participle fortaking, simple past fortook, past participle fortaken)

1. (transitive) To take away; remove; deprive.
   • 1866, Couldrette, Walter William Skeat, The romans of Partenay, or of Lusignen:

     With thys fair lady ther fortake ueryly, [...]
2. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To mistake; make a mistake.
3. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To aim or deal a blow at; hit.

Anagrams

• take for