forthink
English
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To cause distress or regret to; cause to regret or repent; to vex.
- (reflexive) To regret; repent.
- (transitive) To regret.
- (intransitive) To repent, be sorry for.
- (transitive) To change one's mind about; to renounce.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English forthinken prefix from English think (seem, appear) inherited from Old English þyncan (appear, seem).
Origin
Old English
þyncan
Gloss
appear, seem
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- afterthink English
- badthink English
- bethink English
- crimethink English
- doublethink English
- forethink English
- forthinketh English
- goodthink English
- groupthink English
- herdthink English
- interthink English
- misthink English
- outthink English
- overthink English
- rethink English
- think English
- think meat English
- thinkable English
- thinker English
- thinkest English
- thinketh English
- thinking English
- thinko English
- thinksome English
- thinky English
- umbethink English
- underthink English
- unthink English
- unthinkable English
- whaddayathink English
- wrongthink English
- denken German
- verdenken German
- denken Dutch, Flemish
- verdenken Dutch, Flemish
- verdenking Dutch, Flemish
- *þunkijaną Proto-Germanic
- þyncan Old English
- forthinken Middle English
- thinken Middle English
- tik Volapük
- tikön Volapük
- ting Tok Pisin
- tingting Tok Pisin
- tink Nigerian Pidgin
- think
- thinko
- thinky
- rethink
- bethink
- thinker
- unthink
- thinking
- outthink
- badthink
- thinkest
- thinketh
- misthink
- overthink
- herdthink
- umbethink
- thinkable
- forethink
- goodthink
- thinksome
- groupthink
- underthink
- interthink
- think meat
- crimethink
- afterthink
- wrongthink
- forthinketh
- unthinkable
- doublethink
- whaddayathink