for-

Meaning

1. (idiomatic, morpheme) Forth: prefixed to verbs to indicate a direction of 'away', 'off', 'forth'.
2. (idiomatic, morpheme) Exhausting: prefixed to verbs with the sense of wearing or exhausting one's self.
3. (idiomatic, morpheme) Destructively: prefixed to verbs with the sense of destruction or pain.
4. (idiomatic, morpheme) Wrongly: prefixed to verbs with the sense of wrongly, amorally.
5. (idiomatic, morpheme) Neglectfully: prefixed to verbs with the sense of abstaining from or neglecting.
6. (idiomatic, morpheme) Very: intensifying adjectives.
7. (idiomatic, morpheme) Making: prefixed to verbs to indicate the subject takes the character of the verb.
8. (idiomatic, morpheme) Excessively: prefixed to verbs with the sense of doing so in excessive or overwhelm.
9. (idiomatic, morpheme) Excluding: prefixed to verbs to give the sense of prohibition or exclusion.
10. (idiomatic, morpheme) Intensively
11. (idiomatic, morpheme) Thoroughly: prefixed to verbs with the sense of thoroughly, all over.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɔː(ɹ)/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: for-

Inherited from Old English: for-

Cognate with Scots: for-

Cognate with Western Frisian: fer-

Cognate with Dutch: ver-

Cognate with German: ver-

Cognate with Swedish: för-

Cognate with Danish: for-

Cognate with Norwegian: for-

Cognate with Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌰-

Cognate with Latin: pro-

In summary

From Middle English for-, vor-, ver-, from Old English for-, fer-, fær-, fyr- (“far, away, completely”, prefix), from the merger of Proto-Germanic *fra- ("away, away from"; see fro, from) and Proto-Germanic *fur-, *far- (“through, completely, fully”), from Proto-Indo-European *pro-, *per-, *pr-. Cognate with Scots for-, West Frisian fer-, for-, Dutch ver-, German ver-, Swedish för-, Danish for-, Norwegian for-, Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰- (fra-), Latin pro-. More at for.