forlet

== English == === Alternative forms === forelet, forleet, forleit, forlete, foreleit === Etymology === From Middle English forleten (“forsake, reject, renounce, omit, lose, forgive”), from Old English forlǣtan (“to leave”), from Proto-Germanic *fralētaną (“to leave, dismiss”), equivalent to for- +‎ let. Cognate with Scots forleet (“to forsake, abandon”), Saterland Frisian ferläite (“to forlet, abandon”), West Frisian forlitte (“to forlet”), Dutch verlaten (“to desert, abandon”), German verlassen (“to leave”), Swedish förlåta (“to excuse, forgive, remit”). === Verb === forlet (third-person singular simple present forlets, present participle forletting, simple past and past participle forlet) (transitive, archaic or UK dialectal) To abandon; give up; leave; leave behind; forsake; desert; neglect. [10th–17th c.] to forlet your sins 1807, The Gothic Gospel of saint Matthew: I soothly quoth, then say, to you, for that each such, he that forlets wife his, be-out unclean lust doing forth-lying thing, doeth (works) he doeth the same to sin, [...] 1920, Alfred (King of England), Pope Gregory I, Paulus Orosius, King Alfred's books - Page 11: [...] whether his mind and his soul were deadly and perishing, or it were aye living and eternal; and again, about his good, what it was, and what good was best for him to do, and what evil to forlet. (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To forget. === Anagrams === Lefort, floret, lofter, torfel == Old English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /forˈleːt/ === Verb === forlēt first/third-person singular preterite indicative of forlǣtan