forbugan

== Old English == === Etymology === Equivalent to for- +‎ būgan. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /forˈbuː.ɡɑn/, [forˈbuː.ɣɑn] === Verb === forbūgan to avoid, abstain Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church to get or stay out of the way of something to abstain to miss a meeting or an appointment to shun, eschew ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== forbūgendlīċ (“avoidable”) forbūgendlīċe (“avoidably”) forbūgennes f (“avoidance, evasion”) unforbūgendlīċ (“unavoidable, inevitable”) unforbūgendlīċe (“unavoidably, inevitably”) ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: forbowen === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “forbugan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎[1], second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.