Where does “forecast” come from?
Forecast comes from Middle English forcasten, combining the prefix for- from Old English for- and Proto-Germanic fra-, ultimately deriving from Proto-Indo-European per- and bʰuH-.
forecast (English): To estimate how something will be in the future;...
Definitions
- To estimate how something will be in the future;...
Ancestry of “forecast”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | forecast | — |