forestigan

== Old English == === Etymology === By surface analysis, fore- +‎ stīgan === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fo.reˈstiː.ɡɑn/, [fo.reˈstiː.ɣɑn] === Verb === forestīgan excel to go before === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “fóre-stígan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.