forsake

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English forsaken (“to abandon, desert, repudiate, withdraw allegiance from; to deny, reject, shun; to betray; to divorce (a spouse); to disown; to be false to (one's nature, vows, etc.); to give up, renounce, surrender; to discard; to omit; to decline, refuse, reject; to avoid, escape; to cease, desist; to evade, neglect; to contradict, refute; to depart, leave; to become detached, separate”) [and other forms], from Old English forsacan (“to oppose; to give up, renounce; to decline, refuse”), from Proto-West Germanic *frasakan (“to forsake, renounce”), from Proto-Germanic *fra- (prefix meaning ‘away, off’) + *sakaną (“to charge; to dispute”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to seek out”)). The English word can be analysed as for- +‎ sake, and is cognate with Saterland Frisian ferseeke (“to deny, refuse”), West Frisian fersaakje, Dutch verzaken (“to renounce, forsake”), Middle High German versachen (“to deny”), Danish forsage (“to give up”), Swedish försaka (“to be without, give up”), Norwegian forsake (“to give up, renounce”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌰𐌽 (sakan, “to quarrel; to rebuke”), . === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fɔːˈseɪk/, /fə-/ (General American) IPA(key): /fɔɹˈseɪk/ Rhymes: -eɪk Hyphenation: for‧sake === Verb === forsake (third-person singular simple present forsakes, present participle forsaking, simple past forsook, past participle forsaken) (transitive) To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something). (transitive, obsolete) To decline or refuse (something offered). (transitive, obsolete) To avoid or shun (someone or something). (transitive, obsolete) To cause disappointment to; to be insufficient for (someone or something). ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “forsake”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “forsake”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === freakos == Norwegian Bokmål == === Alternative forms === forsage === Etymology === Borrowed from Low German vorsaken, from Old Saxon farsakan, from Proto-West Germanic *frasakan (“to forsake, renounce”). === Verb === forsake (imperative forsak, present tense forsaker, simple past and past participle forsaka or forsaket, present participle forsakende) to give up, relinquish to denounce (the devil) ==== Derived terms ==== forsakelse === References === “forsake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.