forne

English

Etymology

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

forne (comparative more forne, superlative most forne)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• Freon, freon, orfen

Danish

Etymology

Either revived or borrowed from Old Norse forn or Swedish forn respectively. from Proto-Germanic *fernaz (“foregoing, previous; recent”), from Proto-Indo-European *perǝm-, *perǝ- (“fore, first”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“forth, over, across, through”). A inherited version from Old Danish forn (“old, weak”) went out of use, and was replaced by the more commonly used adjective gammel.

Adjective

forne

1. (dated) belonging to the (ancient) past

   Synonym: fordum

Declension

forne

References

• “forne” in Den Danske Ordbog

Latin

Noun

forne

1. vocative singular of fornus

Swedish

Adjective

forne

1. definite natural masculine singular of forn

Anagrams

• eforn, fenor